Vijaya lakshmi pandit autobiography of a face
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Keen followers of Indian history, especially the country’s independence struggle and early post-independence days, would remember Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as an extraordinary woman.
A public servant, an ace diplomat and a wonderful speaker she was able to raise India’s prestige in the comity of nations in the ambassadorial assignments she held as well as in the United Nations where she presided over the General Assembly.
Vijaya lakshmi pandit autobiography of a face
Marlon Brando called her the woman he admired most in the world. Such was the fame of her brilliance overseas.
Writing the foreword to her memoir “The Scope of Happiness” in 1979, Lord Mountbatten India’s last Viceroy had written as follows.
“Nan Pandit has represented her country in a number of diplomatic and political posts, but I feel none was more important than that of the Indian High Commissioner in London. It is impossible to measure the