House Of Crafts

• Helps correct the perceived gender bias of the foreign ministry
  
• Considered close to Sonia Gandhi
  
• Is a career diplomat. Political appointees have to resign in case of a change in government.
  
• S.S. Menon retires in July-end
  
• Nirupama Rao and Nalin Suri are frontrunners. Rao is the favourite.
  
• Meera wanted the post of Permanent Representative in UN
  
• But that is kept for Rao or Suri, whoever isn't foreign secretary

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