According the first Indian diplomat cited above, India’s CTBT campaign “represented one of the finest moments of Indian diplomacy” when national interest was placed above all else. Those who served with her or crossed paths recalled her as “combative” and “never afraid to speak her mind.”“The only guiding principle for you would be India’s national interest. National interest must never be compromised,” a Twitter post by Vivek Kumar, deputy secretary in prime minister’s office, recalled her as telling him. Handpicked by the Deve Gowda’s predecessor Congress prime minister Narasimha Rao, in 1995 as India’s ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Ghose “was there defending India’s interest at this point,” the diplomat said. “Arundhati Ghose, former diplomat & Ambassador passed away earlier tonight.

Source: Mint July 26, 2016 17:15 UTC