Madanjeet Singh
Madanjeet Singh (April 16, 1924 – January 6, 2013) was an Indian artist, writer, diplomat and philanthropist. From the year 2000, he was a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
Singh was born in Lahore. He sponsored the bi-annual UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence.[1] He created the South Asia Foundation in 2000 as a regional youth movement and it has now grown to have chapters in eight countries.[2] He was praised as a "freedom fighter and a secular humanist" by Taslima Nasreen, for whom he had helped secure Indian Residency.[3] He is a Secular Humanist.[3] The South Asia Foundation (SAF) has offered scholarships to South Asian students under various disciplines in its 12 UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institutions of Excellence. These institutions are located in all 8 countries of South Asia and are teaching fine arts, journalism, regional cooperation, green technology, etc. Nishchal N. Pandey, in his book "New Nepal: The Faultlines", called him 'a lifelong adherent and a supporter of India's secular and plural culture'.
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Death
On January 6, 2013, Singh died in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, at the age of 88 from a stroke.[4]
Books
His many publications include:
- Culture of the Sepulchre (2012) (his experiences as Indian Ambassador to Uganda at the time of Idi Amin), ISBN 0670085731[5]
- Kashmiriyat - The pluralistic Sufi-Bhakti-Rishi Culture, South Asia Foundation (2009)
- SASIA Story UNESCO (2005)
- Himalayan Art (UNESCO art books series), New York Graphic Society/UNESCO (1968) ASIN B000LY5LNG - revised edition Macmillan (1971), ISBN 0-333-12066-3 [6]
- Ajanta, painting of the sacred and the secular, Edita Lausanne, 1965
References
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External links
- Bio details, South Asia Foundation
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