Bharat Ratna AB Vajpayee's Terrific 1977 UN Speech Still Makes Us Proud
Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has just been awarded the Bharat Ratna. But the poet, orator had taken the world by storm as early as 1977 when he as India's Foreign Minister in the Janata Party Government had given a rapturous speech at the UN General Assembly in Hindi. That was the first time anyone had given a speech in Hindi at the global forum.?
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