Background
He was born 11 September 1924,and received an Master of Arts in English from Punjab University.
He was born 11 September 1924,and received an Master of Arts in English from Punjab University.
He was Tutor at Government College,Lahore, 1944-1946. Head of the English Department at Société Anonyme College for Women, Sialkot, 1946. Head of the English Department at Arya College, Ludhiana, 1947.
Appointed to the Punjab Educational Service in March 1948.
Lecturer in English, Government College, Ludhiana 1948-1949.
He was appointed to the Indian Foreign Service on 27 September 1949. In his later career, he was India"s high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to Morocco, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Nepal, France and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He was the foreign secretary during the Bhopal gas disaster.
lieutenant is claimed by the then Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States embassy in New Delhi in 1984, in an interview with a news channel, that communications between the Government of India and himself relating to the release of Warren Anderson (of Union Carbide) to return to the United States went through the foreign secretary.
In a subsequent interview with Karan Thapar, Mr Rasgotra held that releasing Warren Anderson was the right thing to do, since he had been earlier promised safe passage.