Goodbye, Mr Swarup!

February 27, 2017 14:28

Vikas Swarup moves on. The MEA spokesperson will be taking up a new posting as the High Commissioner of lndia to Canada. Swarup is an officer of the Indian Foreign Service batch of 1986 and is famous for penning down the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire. In April 2015, he replaced Syed Akbaruddin as the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India to head its Public Diplomacy divisions in New Delhi.

Swarup tweeted this picture this morning, saying, "Thank you and good bye to my superb team. At the official farewell organised by the MEA's External Publicity & Public Diplomacy Division."

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