{"id":709,"date":"2025-08-07T07:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:39:03","slug":"k-p-balakrishnan-ifs-retd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/k-p-balakrishnan-ifs-retd\/","title":{"rendered":"K.P. Balakrishnan, IFS (Retd)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>K.P. Balakrishnan<\/strong>, a distinguished officer of the Indian Foreign Service, was born in 1940 to <strong>Aattor Nedumbrakkal Pisharath Late Madhavi Pisharassiar<\/strong> and <strong>Late Aryavaidyan N.P. Krishna Pisharody<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing his <strong>M.Sc.<\/strong> from <strong>Maharaja\u2019s College, Ernakulam<\/strong>, he began his career as a <strong>Professor<\/strong> in various colleges across Kerala. In <strong>1963<\/strong>, he was selected for the <strong>Indian Foreign Service (IFS)<\/strong> and went on to serve in various Indian consulates around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His notable diplomatic assignments include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ambassador of India to Yemen (1986\u20131989)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the Vatican<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his retirement from the Foreign Service in <strong>2000<\/strong>, he continued his diplomatic engagement as the <strong>Commonwealth Advisor<\/strong> to the <strong>Foreign Office of Guyana<\/strong> during <strong>2001\u20132002<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2002, he has been residing in <strong>Thrissur<\/strong>.<br>He is married to <strong>Padinjare Thonnangamath Pisharath Sathi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K.P. Balakrishnan, a distinguished officer of the Indian Foreign Service, was born in 1940 to Aattor Nedumbrakkal Pisharath Late Madhavi Pisharassiar and Late Aryavaidyan N.P. Krishna Pisharody. After completing his M.Sc. from Maharaja\u2019s College, Ernakulam, he began his career as a Professor in various colleges across Kerala. In 1963, he was selected for the Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,47,31],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-famous","category-thrissur","tag-famous"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}