Bilahari kausikan biography of mahatma
Bilahari kausikan biography of mahatma
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Bilahari Kausikan
Singaporean former diplomat
Bilahari Kim Hee Papanasam Setlur Kausikan[1] is a Singaporean retired academic, diplomat and civil servant who served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations between and
Early life and education
Kausikan's father, P.S.
Raman, was a late British Raj-born Indian immigrant who moved to Singapore after the Partition of India. After serving as a diplomat, the wealthy P. S. Raman married Lim Eng Neo, a Peranakan, and they had three children.[2]
P.S.
Raman named his son Bilahari Kim Hee Papanasam Setlur Kausikan: Bilahari is the name of a raga; Kausikan is a form of the Vedic surname Kaushik; Setlur is a Brahmin sub-caste; and Papanasam is the name of P.S. Raman's home village in Tamil Nadu.
Kim Hee (金喜; Jīn Xǐ; 'golden joy')[3] is the Chinese name that Kausikan's mother gave him.[1]
Kausikan graduated from the University of Singapore (now the National Univers