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Former diplomat Damodaran dies

Ampadi K Damodaran,one of the brightest and sharpest minds that the Indian foreign policy establishment had seen,died here on Tuesday. He was 91

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Ampadi K Damodaran,one of the brightest and sharpest minds that the Indian foreign policy establishment had seen,died here on Tuesday. He was 91.

A Nehruite to the core,he practiced the diplomacy of realpolitik without surrendering national interests in the immediate years after Independence and was one of the last surviving diplomats of the Nehruvian era.

An affable and humble man who was known to be a keen listener,Damodaran joined the foreign service in 1953 after playing an active role in the freedom struggle and a brief two-year stint at the Delhi University where he taught English. He went to jail during the Quit India movement,but old timers remember he never brandished this as he felt it was expected of every Indian. He served in China,the USSR,Sweden,Italy and Sri Lanka during his three-decade-long career.

Damodaran,who was born in Tripunithura,Kerala,in 1921,breathed his last at the Escorts Hospital.

 

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