Jain Digest 2007 11 2

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Jain Digest. Winter 2007
A TRIBUTE TO DR. L. M. SINGHVI
JAIN DIASPORA - a new initiative of JAINA. The meeting was attended by Acharya Shri Chandanaji, Dr Kumarpal Desai, Dr. N P Jain and Jain delegates from 9 countries. He gave a very warm and enthusiastic support to this new initiative and expressed confidence that JAINA is very well suited to lead this worldwide movement for JAIN UNITY. In his departure JAINA has lost a Mentor and a well-wisher. On behalf of Jain community of North America, JAINA sends heartfelt condolences to his family.
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Eminent jurist, constitutional expert and former parliamentarian LM Singhvi, who was one of India's longest-serving envoys to Britain, died in New Delhi on Saturday. He was 76. A noted scholar in Jain history and culture, Singhvi was ailing for the past two weeks and died of a heart attack. His wife Kamala, son Abhishek, who is a senior advocate and a spokesman for the Congress party, and daughter Abhilasha survive him. Singhvi was among the longest-serving high commissioners to Britain (early 1991 to end 1997). He was also a linguist, prolific author, litterateur and a patron of arts. He served the Lok Sabha in 1962-67 and the Rajya Sabha in 1998-2004 The Padma Bhusan was conferred on him in 1998. He headed the High-Level Committee on Indian diaspora appointed by the previous National Democratic Alliance government and had been studying India's ties with its diaspora since his days as a law student at Harvard in 1951. Singhvi also conceived the idea of an annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the event organized by the Indian government each January to engage with its 25 million-diaspora spread across 130 countries. Apart from his work on the diaspora, he was noted for his championship of human rights and led the Indian delegation to the UN Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993. Singhvi was born in 1931 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. His works include "Towards Global Togetherness", "Democracy and the Rule of the Law", "Freedom on trial", "Jurisprudence of Non-Violence" and a volume of poems in Hindi, Sandhya ka Suraj". He was bestowed upon Jain Ratna Award by then P.M. Vajpai on the occasion of 2600th birthday of Lord Mahavir in 2001 and He was the author of 'Jain Proclamation on Ecology presented to Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. Singhvi was also president of the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague as well as the Commission of Inquiry into Administration of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago. His last gift to the people of India was a brief he filed in UK last July preventing auction of Mahatma Gandhi's papers and succeeded in getting them back in India. Dr. L. M Singhvi was specially invited speaker to 2007 JAINA Convention. Even though he was not in good health and could only travel in wheel chair with his personal physician and a family member accompanying him, he made the heroic gesture to JAINA in attending the convention. He made the trip because he was determined to come here and give something to the Jain community of North America. This was the forth JAINA Convention he had attended. At the 2007 JAINA convention, he chaired a meeting on the
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