Satya Narayan Gourisaria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Satya Narayan Gourisaria

Gandhian

Date of Birth: 07-May-1929

Place of Birth: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Satya Narayan Gourisaria

  • Satya Narayan Gourisaria is an Indian born British company secretary, gandhian and a former secretary of the India League, an Indian independence movement organization founded by V.
  • K.
  • Krishna Menon.
  • He was born on 7 May 1929 at Dhanbad, in the Indian state of Bihar but shifted to East Bengal, then in erstwhile East Pakistan to return to India in 1948, a year after the Indian independence.
  • He did his college studies at Scottish Church College, Kolkata and migrated to United Kingdom in the 1950s to stay there for 61 years.
  • A former company secretary at Douglas Fraser and Sons (London) Limited, Gourisaria has also held the directorship of the now defunct Ashoka Publications.
  • During his stay in London, he is known to have assisted in cultural exchanges by hiring cinemas to show Indian films and bringing Indian film personalities to London for shows, a show by Lata Mangeshkar at the Royal Albert Hall in 1974 being a notable one.
  • He returned to India in 2013.
  • He was honored by the Government of India, in 2000, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.

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