Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, “the most remarkable woman” Eleanor Roosevelt had ever met, was a pioneering politician and diplomat celebrated internationally for her brilliance, charm and glamour. Marlon ...

The American press made much of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s [Nan] appointment to the United States. The New York Herald Tribune called her “India’s most notable woman,” while an analysis in the Daily ...

In 1953, the United Nations elected India’s Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the 8th President of the General Assembly, the first woman elected to the role. A prominent politician and active Indian ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – When Ruchira Kamboj took the gavel on December 1 at the Security Council, she was following in the footsteps of an illustrious Indian woman, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit who assumed ...

General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa has said that she draws inspiration from Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman to hold the office, and plans to install her portrait in her office, ...

The new president of the United Nations General Assembly walked serenely to the dais, fussed through her handbag for her glasses and a pencil, then spoke to the hall full of delegates in a soft, ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt ...