Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t64.1

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V V Paranjpe was in Foreign Service of the government of India who retired as ambassador in early 1980s. But, much more important than the various official positions that he held, he was more widely known as an Chinese language expert and a proficient interpreter to the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and other Indian leaders whenever the latter visited China and had interactions with the Chinese leaders like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Chen Yun - a role which no one else could then perform so well and so efficiently in the whole of the Indian academic and governmental circle as he could.