P. N. Menon (diplomat)

Parappil Narayana Menon (1920- 22 June 1975),[1] also known as P.N. Menon, was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service.

Personal life

He was married to Malini, the daughter of first Foreign Secretary of India, K.P.S. Menon.[2] His son is Shivshankar Menon, who as of 2011 was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India .

Civil service

P.N. Menon first joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947.[3] At one point, he served as Consul-General of India in Lhasa, and later served as intermediary to the young Dalai Lama during the 1959 Tibetan uprising.[4][5][6][7] He died while serving as ambassador to Greece and Yugoslavia in Belgrade.[8]

Posts held

See also

References

  1. Almanac of Current World Leaders Biography & News: ii. September 1975. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. K.P.S. Menon (1981). Many Worlds Revisited. p. 276.
  3. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series II Volume 33, p. 479, footnote 16
  4. Roger E. McCarthy (1997). Tears of the Lotus. p. 208.
  5. Tséring Shakya (1999). The dragon in the land of snows: a history of modern Tibet since 1947. p. 215.
  6. John Kenneth Knaus (1999). Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan struggle for survival. p. 172.
  7. Raja Hutheesing (1960). Tibet fights for freedom: the story of the March 1959 uprising as recorded in documents, despatches [sic] eye-witness accounts and world-wide reactions. p. 84. line feed character in |title= at position 27 (help)
  8. K.P.S. Menon, Sr (1979). Memories and Musings. p. 310.
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