Author Amish Tripathi has been named as the director of London\u2019s Nehru\nCentre, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) president Vinay\nSahasrabudhe announced on Thursday. The cultural centre works under the ICCR\u2019s\naegis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tripathi, who is the author of best-selling books like the Secret of the\nNagas and Sita – Warrior of Mithila, would take over from diplomat Srinivas\nGotru. Gotru\u2019s four-year tenure ended early this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sahasrabudhe said that Tripathi will bring more visibility to the ICCR\u2019s\nflagship cultural centre. \u201cWe want every centre under the ICCR to be more\nvibrant and proactive to generate a proper understanding of the Indian culture\nabroad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the selection process for the director\u2019s post involved an\napplication for it followed by an interview with a selection panel. \u201cIt is a\nroutine process and Tripathi was chosen on merit,\u201d said Sahasrabudhe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nehru Centre was founded in 1992 with Gopalkrishna Gandhi as its founder\ndirector. Playwright-actor Girish Karnad has been among the prominent people to\nhave helmed the centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of Nehru Centre\u2019s directors have been political appointees. Diplomat\nPavan Varma was the first bureaucrat to head the cultural wing of the Indian\nhigh commission in London. He was appointed its director in 2005. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Varma said that Tripathi could change things around for the Nehru Centre,\nwhich has lost a bit of visibility over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About Amish Tripathi <\/strong> Author Amish Tripathi has been named as the director of London\u2019s Nehru Centre, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) president Vinay Sahasrabudhe announced on Thursday. The cultural centre works under the ICCR\u2019s aegis. Tripathi, who is the author of best-selling books like the Secret of the Nagas and Sita – Warrior of Mithila, would take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-art-culture-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He is an Indian author
His famous works are The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku and Sita: Warrior of Mithila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"