Ramesh Sondhi & Sons

Ramesh Sondhi & Sons Professor ML Sondhi, (1933 – 2003) had his education from Punjab University (MA LLB), London School of Economics, Balliol College Oxford, and Charles University Prague (Czechoslovakia). He was elected Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1956, but having simultaneously topped in the All-India UPCS examination, securing the yet unsurpassed highest marks in the oral interview, he opted for the Indian Foreign Service which sent him for a year’s training to Balliol College, where the Rhodes Foundation also treated him as one of their own. His first diplomatic posting (1958-1960) was at Prague as Cultural Attaché (also for a time Charge d’Affaires) where he developed, apart from formal professional contacts, a wide range of connections amongst dissenting literary and cultural circles. These interactions added to his studies of Czech Language and Literature at Charles University, gave him unique insights into the deeper currents of Czech society and culture.