Acknowledging LOSS | Collection of Poems by Amarendra Khatua

Shri Amarendra Khatua IFS is a distinguished Indian poet and Senior Diplomat . He has served both as the Indian Ambassador to Argentina and as the Indian Ambassador to Ivory Coast. A widely traveled author and culture critic, Shri Khatua has forty published collections of poetry in English, Odia, Hindi, and other Indian dialects and international languages.

Shri Khatua is a 1981 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and has had several important assignments during his 35-year-long diplomatic career. He is considered a quiet but immensely focused diplomat and has held trade and economic positions in various Indian missions and served in different capacities in key divisions at the MEA. He has also served in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Planning Commission and Ministry of Industry. He has also served as DG- Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Dean- Foreign Service Institute, and Ambassador of India to Argentina. He has also served as special envoy to South Sudan and Sudan to broker peace between the two countries.