10-27-2006, 06:42 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>India and the World - A Talk by Jaswant Singh</b>
<b>Location: ICC Milpitas
555 Los Coches Street
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-934-1130</b>
Ex-defense, foreign and finance minister and opposition party leader Jaswant Singh will speak about India and the World at ICC Milpitas, Saturday October 28, 11 a.m. His talk will be hosted by Pradeep Chhibber, Chair of the Department of Political Science, at UC Berkeley.
Singh will address Indo-U.S. relations, nuclear non-proliferation, India and China and terrorism and India. He will accept questions after his talk.
Singh is one of the rarest kind of politicians who has held three of the most coveted ministries. He started in the government of Atul Behari Vajpayee as the External Affairs Minister and later on switched his ministry to Finance with Yashwant Sinha. He moved on to the Defence Ministry when George Fernandes was forced to resign.
Jaswant Singh is among the most respected names in the country's public life, and in the world of diplomacy. He is deservedly given credit for dexterously steering India out of the turbulent diplomatic seas encountered in the aftermath of the nuclear tests of May 1998. He is Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India's Parliament.
Singh is visiting Professor at Oxford University, an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University.
Singh's new book, A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India is an evocative account about a crucial period in India's history and provides an in-depth look at several vital events that changed the way the world perceived India.
The event is free for all.
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<b>Sat, Oct 28
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM</b>
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Free Member
Free Non-Member
JS102800F6
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<b>Location: ICC Milpitas
555 Los Coches Street
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-934-1130</b>
Ex-defense, foreign and finance minister and opposition party leader Jaswant Singh will speak about India and the World at ICC Milpitas, Saturday October 28, 11 a.m. His talk will be hosted by Pradeep Chhibber, Chair of the Department of Political Science, at UC Berkeley.
Singh will address Indo-U.S. relations, nuclear non-proliferation, India and China and terrorism and India. He will accept questions after his talk.
Singh is one of the rarest kind of politicians who has held three of the most coveted ministries. He started in the government of Atul Behari Vajpayee as the External Affairs Minister and later on switched his ministry to Finance with Yashwant Sinha. He moved on to the Defence Ministry when George Fernandes was forced to resign.
Jaswant Singh is among the most respected names in the country's public life, and in the world of diplomacy. He is deservedly given credit for dexterously steering India out of the turbulent diplomatic seas encountered in the aftermath of the nuclear tests of May 1998. He is Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India's Parliament.
Singh is visiting Professor at Oxford University, an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University.
Singh's new book, A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India is an evocative account about a crucial period in India's history and provides an in-depth look at several vital events that changed the way the world perceived India.
The event is free for all.
 Â
<b>Sat, Oct 28
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM</b>
 Â
Free Member
Free Non-Member
JS102800F6
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