Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (born May 21, 1915, Madras, India, d. November 2, 2003, Chennai, India) was a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.He was appointed to the United Nations in 1956, as Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and Far East. In 1958, he was appointed Under-Secretary for Special Political Questions in the U.N., to work directly under the U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, and with Nobel laureate Ralph Bunch.In 1961, he became Chef de Cabinet in the U.N. His last post was as Under Secretary-General before retirement in 1978. In 2001, he received India's second highest honor Padma Vibhushan.He also wrote an English translation of the Mahābhārata based on selected verses in 1965.. }
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- Chakravarthi_V._Narasimhan abstract "Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (born May 21, 1915, Madras, India, d. November 2, 2003, Chennai, India) was a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.He was appointed to the United Nations in 1956, as Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and Far East. In 1958, he was appointed Under-Secretary for Special Political Questions in the U.N., to work directly under the U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, and with Nobel laureate Ralph Bunch.In 1961, he became Chef de Cabinet in the U.N. His last post was as Under Secretary-General before retirement in 1978. In 2001, he received India's second highest honor Padma Vibhushan.He also wrote an English translation of the Mahābhārata based on selected verses in 1965.".