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| Schooling at Christ Church, Madras |
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| La Martinere, Lucknow and St. Mary's, Bombay |
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| Masters in English at St. Stephens College, Delhi University |
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| Secretary, Government of Bengal, Department of Hill Affairs |
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| Secretary to Chief Minister, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Bengal |
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| Under Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |
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Additional Secretary (Department of Kashmir Affairs)
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Director General, Doordarshan
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President, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (1988)
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Additional Secretary, then Secretary at Department of Culture in the
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Government of India
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Headed the Department of Kashmir Affairs as Additional Secretary
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Joint Secretary to the Defence Ministry
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Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the School of Creative
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Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Member of the Board of Directors of Population Communications
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International, New York. Equus Advertising Ltd. And Aegis
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Communications India Ltd.
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Trustee of Natrang Pratishthan
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :
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Set up the Central Production Centre at the Asiad Village, New Delhi
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Laid the foundation for a Professional TV News Division
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Has been an active member of Yatrik , the oldest theatre group
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Played : Hamlet in “HAMLET”
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Berowne in “Love's Labour Lost”
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Konstantin in Chekhov's “The Seagull”
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John Proctor in Arthur Miller's “The Crucible”
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Gerardo Escobar in Ariel Dorfman's “Death and The Maiden”
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Karanchand in Gurcharan Das' “ 9 Jakhoo Hill”
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Directed : Christopher Fry's “Venus Observed”
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| Jean Anouhill's “Antigone” |
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| Alan Ayckbourn's “Bedroom Farce” |
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| Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” |
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| ”The Merchant of Venice” |
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| A Television Host for Doordarshan in 1978 |
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Visiting Fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford |
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Worked for ESCAP the South East Asian Regional Office of the UN |
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