Other names Purshottam Narayan Haksar 1 Date of birth Thursday, September 4, 1913 - 12:00 City of birth Gujaranwala Country of birth India Current name country of birth Pakistan Date of death Wednesday, November 25, 1998 - 12:00 Location of death New Delhi Location London 2 About P.N. Haksar arrived in Britain to study at the London School of Economics. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in the early 1940s. In London, he was an active member of Krishna Menon's India League along with other students, which greatly shaped his socialist political outlook. He befriended Feroze Gandhi and Jawahrlal Nehru's daughter Indira who would later appoint him her principal secretary, a post he held from 1967-73. He was also India's chief negotiator for the talks between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1972-3. Connections Mulk Raj Anand, Feroze Gandhi, Krishna Menon, Indira Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Iqbal Singh. Organizations India League Network Mulk Raj Anand 3 Published works One More Life (Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1990) Premonitions (Bombay: Interpress, 1979) Reflections on our Time (Delhi: Lancers, 1982) Secondary works Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto, 2002)