Today is the Birthday of Great Indian leader Natwar Singh. Kunwar Natwar Singh is a writer, an Indian politician, a former senior bureaucrat, and a former Union cabinet minister. He was selected into the IFS, one of the most competitive and prestigious government services, in 1953. In 1984, he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the Indian National Congress party. He won the election and served as a union minister of state until 1989. Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in 2004. However, 18 months later, he had to resign under a cloud after the UN's Volcker committee named both him and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay-offs in the Iraqi oil scam.


He has written many books in different topics:


  1. E.M.Forster : A Tribute (on Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday), editor, with Contributions by Ahmed Ali, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, New York, 1964
  2. The Legacy of Nehru: A Memorial Tribute, New York, 1965[15]
  3. Tales from Modern India, New York, 1966
  4. Stories from India, London, 1971
  5. Maharaja Suraj Mal, 1707-63: His Life and Times, London, 1981[16]
  6. Curtain Raisers, Delhi,1984
  7. Profiles & Letters, Delhi, 1997
  8. The Magnificent Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (1891–1938), Delhi, 1997
  9. Heart to Heart, Delhi, 2003.
  10. Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past, Released by Hamid Ansari, March 2013.
  11. One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography, August 2014.


Recently in one discussion he said,"I am glad that India was partitioned."


Few Famous Quotes from his latest Book "One Life is Not Enough":


When necessary bend like a willow, when necessary stand unbending like an oak.
I believe that life is a journey without maps.
Equality is a receding dream. No level playing fields exist. With apologies to the great Jean Jacques Rousseau, man is not born free. Equality between human beings is impossible, although they could achieve a measure of fraternity.
out the wrong signal, half a dozen
In the modern world, economic policy takes precedence over foreign policy. This is a fundamental change in the way the world is moving today.