1. Vikas Swarup was born on 22 June 1961 and is a retired Indian diplomat and writer.
12 Facts About Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup retired from the Indian Foreign Service as the Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and has previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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In December 2019, Vikas Swarup took charge as Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, looking after relations with Europe, Central Asia as well as the United Nations system.
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Vikas Swarup was born in 1961 in the historic Indian city, Prayagraj in a family of lawyers.
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Vikas Swarup is a career diplomat and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986.
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Vikas Swarup has served in different capacities in New Delhi and in India's missions abroad including his last assignment as High Commissioner of India to Canada followed by the post of the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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Vikas Swarup served in Ankara, Washington DC, Addis Ababa, London, Pretoria and as Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, Japan.
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Vikas Swarup has written for TIME, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Outlook magazine and Liberation.
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On 16 June 2023, Vikas Swarup was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Vikas Swarup took over as the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs on 18 April 2015.
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Vikas Swarup speaks Turkish apart from English and other Indian languages.
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Vikas Swarup is married to Aparna, an artist, and the couple have two sons.