Mohammad Yunus (diplomat)

For other people named Mohammad Yunus, see Mohammad Yunus (disambiguation).

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Nicholas Roerich, and Mohammad Yunus

Mohammad Yunus (26 June 1916 – 17 June 2001) was a member of Indian Foreign Service.^[1] He served as ambassador to Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq, and Spain. He promoted trade between India and the rest of the world through regular trade fairs and the establishment of exhibition complex at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. He also headed erstwhile Trade Fair Authority of India (TFAI) which is now rechristened as India Trade Promotion Organization. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1987.^[2]

Personal Details

Yunus was born on 26 June 1916 in the city of Abbottabad, North-West Frontier Province,^[1] to Haji Ghulam Samdani and Murvari Jan. He studied at Muslim University School, Aligarh and Islamia College, Peshawar.

He died at the age of 84 on 17 June 2001 at the AIIMS, New Delhi after a protracted illness,^[3] surrounded by family and friends.

Independence movement

Yunus was a follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, with whom he worked from 1936 to August, 1947 as a Khudai Khidmatgar.^[1]^[3] He was imprisoned during the Quit India Movement by Iskandar Mirza in 1941.^[1] In Abbottabad Prison he contracted tuberculosis and was subsequently released in 1944, as the government did not think he would survive. After recuperating, he was again jailed in Kashmir in 1946.

Career

He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947. During his time with the IFS, he represented India at the Non-Aligned Summits at Lusaka, Algiers, Colombo, New Delhi, and Harare.

Yunus retired as Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce in 1974.

In 1975 he was appointed as special envoy of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In this capacity he established the Pragati Maidan in Delhi and went on regular trade exhibitions around the globe to promote Indian products and companies.^[4]

He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in June 1989.^[4]

Emergency Period

During the Emergency of 1975–77, Yunus was in the inner circle of Indira Gandhi and served as one of her most trusted advisers.

Adil Shahryar

Yunus's son Adil Shahryar was a childhood friend of Rajiv Gandhi and his brother Sanjay Gandhi.

Adil Shahryar died in 1990.^[5]

Literary works

The first book written by Yunus was titled Frontier Speakers , with a foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru and a preface by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. It was banned by the British government in 1942. He then wrote "Kaidi ke Khat", in Urdu, later translated into English and Hindi, and finally his memoirs, Persons, Passions and Politics published in November 1979.

References

1 2 3 4 "Mohammad Yunus dead". The Tribune. 2001-06-18. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
1 2 "Mohammad Yunus dead". The Hindu. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
1 2 "Mohammad Yunus remembered". The Hindu. 2004-06-17. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sushmas-counterattack-Who-is-Adil-Shahryar-and-what-was-his-connection-with-Rajiv-Gandhi/articleshow/48455131.cms?

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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–89)

1980	Sunil Gavaskar

1981	Vainu Bappu Prafulla Desai Makhala Jha A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Gopinath Mohanty Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee Amritlal Nagar Mrinal Sen Avabai Bomanji Wadia

1982	Jasbir Singh Bajaj Sundaram Balachander Gottipati Brahmaiah Rani Gaidinliu Khadim Hussain Khan Stella Kramrisch Jal Minocher Mehta Grace Morley Atam Prakash Syed Zahoor Qasim Arnee Sreenivasan Ramakrishnan Kamal Ranadive P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri Jhabarmal Sharma Ajit Ram Verma

1983	Richard Attenborough Doraiswamy Iyengar V. G. Jog Suraj Parkash Malhotra Nagendra K. Sankaran Nair Prem Nazir Swraj Paul, Baron Paul Rajkumar K. G. Ramanathan Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala Subodh Chandra Sengupta Adi M. Sethna Arun Kumar Sharma Benudhar Sharma Bhalindra Singh Umrao Singh

1984	Horace Alexander Narayan Chaturvedi Michael Ferreira Sivaji Ganesan Jnan Prakash Ghosh Kotha Satchidananda Murthy Hosur Narasimhaiah Sripada Pinakapani Ishwari Prasad B. C. Sanyal Marie Seton Archana Sharma Obaid Siddiqi Natwar Singh Ganda Singh Vijay Tendulkar Baldev Upadhyaya

1985	Rais Ahmed Durga Das Basu Shiba P. Chatterjee Eknath Vasant Chitnis Virender Lal Chopra Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon Santidev Ghosh Surinder Singh Gill Bhimsen Joshi Sadat Abul Masud Kalanidhi Narayanan Bernard Peters Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Gopala Ramanujam S. Ramaseshan Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry Amarjit Singh Tribhuvandas Luhar Gurbachan Singh Talib Bhalchandra Udgaonkar Srinivasan Varadarajan

1986	V. S. R. Arunachalam Pushpa Mittra Bhargava Ela Bhatt Manohar Lal Chibber Aminuddin Dagar V. Krishnamurthy Jean Riboud Sidney Dillon Ripley Rajeev Sethi Martand Singh C. Venkataraman Sundaram Badri Nath Tandon Gulshan Lal Tandon R. K. Trivedi

1987	Balamani Amma Kishori Amonkar Srinivasa Anandaram Nikhil Banerjee Roddam Narasimha R. D. Pradhan Annada Shankar Ray Julio Ribeiro Man Mohan Sharma Laxmi Prasad Sihare Farokh Udwadia Mohammad Yunus

1988	19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Ram Prakash Bambah Kartar Singh Duggal Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Abid Hussain Shreyans Prasad Jain Kelucharan Mohapatra Bal Ram Nanda Akkineni Nageswara Rao Pratury Trirumala Rao Renuka Ray B. V. Sreekantan Satya Pal Wahi

1989	Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Girija Devi Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar Girilal Jain Anna Rajam Malhotra M. V. Mathur Ashesh Prasad Mitra Russi Mody Suresh Shankar Nadkarni Narinder Singh Randhawa Yoshio Sakurauchi Lakshman Singh Prakash Narain Tandon

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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