Honoured to host Amb @NikkiHaley at Embassy residence yesterday along with influential figures from Indian American community @SushmaSwaraj @IndianDiplomacy @AkbaruddinIndia @IndianEmbassyUS
Navtej Sarna
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Navtej Sarna
@NavtejSarna
Fmr Ambassador of India to US, UK, Israel. Author: Crimson Spring & several other books. Sahitya Akademi awardee. Visiting Fellow All Souls College Oxford
Joined December 2011
- Fully agree with @DalrympleWill. Whitehall statue of so-called “Clive of India” irked me each time I went to British #FCO. It needs to go. The Raj was not “some enormous rose-tinted Merchant Ivory film writ large over the plains of Hindustan, all parasols and Simla tea parties”Robert Clive: An ‘unstable sociopath and a racist’, hated both in India and England Author William Dalrymple explains no one in the 18th century would have dreamt of putting up a statue for Robert Clive; the idea came up only in the early 1900s indianexpress.com/article/resear…
- My 2003 novel “We Weren’t Lovers Like That” starts on this New Delhi platform where the protagonist takes an early Shatabdi. I did much the same today, the same early morning Delhi streets, the coolies, crowds and a Delhi 20 years on. Life often follows #fiction
- Yes it certainly makes any writer’s day and here I hope it made the day for two ! #TheOceanOfChurn #SecondThoughts @HarperCollinsINWhen you are reading a book and the author is across the aisle. Awesome. And when he is reading your book. Priceless!! @NavtejSarna
- Welcoming @IvankaTrump to @GES2017. Great boost to India US cooperation in innovation and women empowerment @IndianEmbassyUS @SushmaSwaraj
- Tricolour flutters in the wind in Pearl Harbour a day before the 77th anniversary of the 1941 attack; floral tributes to all who perished@DefenceMinIndia @nsitharaman during the barge tour of Pearl Harbour Boat House organized by @INDOPACOM on 6 December 2018. She was accompanied by Commander of @INDOPACOM Adm. Phil Davidson and Ambassador @navtejsarna @SpokespersonMoD @MEAIndia @PIB_India @DDNewsLive @INDOPACOM
- Delighted to see new edition of my 2003 The Book of Nanak. Thanks to the fabulous Arpana Caur for permitting use of her wonderful painting for the cover . Thanks @penguinrandom
- A stream of #Plastic runs through this paradise of deodar, spruce and cicada song. An optimist would say one day we will learn; I am not one.. #plasticpollution #HimachalPradesh #environment
- Pleasure to speak to 130 mid-level IAS officers on India’s External Security Challenges @LBSNAA_Official Mussoorie. Much has changed at the Academy ( new hostels, seminar halls, glass walled squash courts…) since I first came here in 1980 but some old buildings survive
- Delighted and honoured that my novel #Crimson Spring has won the KLF Fiction award 2022 Thank you @kalingalitfest. @AlephBookCo @JLFLitfest @SanjoyRoyTWA @NamitaGokhale_ @DalrympleWill @ShashiTharoor @mandira_nayar @WoollardJessicaWe are thrilled to share that @NavtejSarna’s #CrimsonSpring has won the @kalingalitfest's ‘Fiction Book of the Year Award-2022’.
