Jaideep Mazumdar

Jaideep Mazumdar, born in Shillong, India, joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1989. Most recently he has been Ambassador of India to Austria, the Holy See and Montenegro and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Vienna. He was also Governor on the Board of Governors of the IAEA during this time and Chair of the Plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement. Prior to that, he was Ambassador to the Philippines, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia. In his career of over 34 years, he has served in various diplomatic capacities in China (Hong Kong and Beijing), in Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York, and in Cairo, Egypt. He has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing and in Kathmandu.

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Bengali Hindus: One Of The World's Most Persecuted Communities | Jaideep Mazumdar
Bengali Hindus have faced horrific persecution since the medieval times, and this persecution has continued throughout the last century and is going on even today. While millions of Bengali Hindus faced religious persecution at the hands of Muslim rulers, it turned into a genocide in East Bengal and then East Pakistan, peaking in 1971. Post-1971, the exodus of Bengali Hindus fleeing horrific atrocities and discriminations in Bangladesh continues. Bengali Hindus have also faced persecution–racial, not communal–in Assam and Meghalaya and been displaced...