Vappala Balachandran

The term 'Asian century' was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap forward. From 1988, diplomats and the media also started using the term, further to the successful Deng Xiaoping-Rajiv Gandhi summit held that December in Beijing. For this summit, Vappala Balachandran, under Prime Minister Gandhi's express directions, led a...