![]() ![]() ![]() Nayar in June 2014 Peace activist Įvery year since 2000, Nayar had been leading peace activists to light candles on the Independence days of Pakistan and India (14/15 August) at the Attari-Wagah India-Pakistan border near Amritsar. He wrote syndicated columns and op-eds that were published in over 80 newspapers in 14 languages including the Deccan Herald (Bengaluru), The Daily Star, The Sunday Guardian, The News, The Statesman, The Express Tribune, Dawn, and PrabhaSakshi. He was appointed High Commissioner to Great Britain in 1990 and nominated to the upper house of Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha in August 1997. He was a member of India's delegation to the United Nations in 1996. He was also a human rights activist and a peace activist. In 1978 he founded the Editors Guild of India. He was editor of the Delhi edition of the English newspaper The Statesman and was arrested towards the end of the Indian Emergency (1975–77). Nayar was initially an Urdu press reporter. In 1952, he studied journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University on a scholarship. (Hons.) from the Forman Christian College Lahore and LL.B. Nayar was born at Sialkot, Punjab, British India on 14 August 1923, in a Punjabi Hindu family. He was also nominated as a member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament in 1997. Kuldip Nayar (14 August 1923 – 23 August 2018) was an Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist, author and former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator. ![]()
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