Prime Minister of India;   Minister  of   External Affairs  and  also  incharge of Ministries/Departments  of Chemicals and  Fertilizers,  Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Coal, Commerce, Communications,  Environment and Forests, Food Processing  Industries, Human Resource Development, Labour, Mines,  Non-Conventional Energy  Sources,  Personnel,  Public Grievances and  Pension, Petroleum and  Natural Gas, Planning  and Programme  Implementation,  Power, Railways,  Rural Areas  and Employment, Science and Technology, Steel,   Surface Transport, Textiles, Water Resources,Atomic Energy, Electronics, Jammu & Kashmir Affairs, Ocean Development, Space and other subjects not allocated to any other Cabinet Minister  

Lok Sabha Mein Atalji (a collection of speeches); Mrityu Ya Hatya, Amar Balidan, Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundalian (a collection of poems written in jail during Emergency); New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy (a collection of speeches delivered as External Affairs Minister during 1977-79); Jana Sangh Aur Musalman; Three Decades in Parliament (Speeches in three volumes); Amar Aag Hai(a collection of poems) 1994; Meri Ekyavan  Kavitayen; Four Decades in Parliament (English)-4 Volumes of Speeches in Parliament, 1957-95  

  Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments

Editor, (i)Rashtra-Dharma-monthly (ii)Panchajanya-weekly;
Swadesh and Veer Arjun, both dailies
 

Social and Cultural Activities   

Member, National Integration Council since 1961; President (i) All India Station Masters and Assistant Station Masters Association, 1965-70; (ii) Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Samarak Samiti, 1968-84; (iii) Deendayal Dham, Farah, Mathura, U.P.; and (iv) Janmabhoomi Smarak Samiti, 1969 onwards 

Special Interests

International affairs; uplift of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; and woman and child welfare 

Favourite Pastime and Recreation

Reading, writing, travelling and cooking 

Countries Visited

Widely travelled; Member, (i)Parliamentary Goodwill Mission to East Africa, 1965;(ii)Parliamentary Delegation to Australia, 1967; European Parliament, 1983; Canada, 1987;(iii) Indian Delegation to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meetings held in Canada, 1966 and 1994, Zambia 1980, Isle of Man 1984; (iv)Indian Delegation to Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Japan, 1974; Sri Lanka, 1975; Switzerland, 1984; (v) Indian Delegation to the UN - General Assembly, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996; and (vi) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Bulgaria, 1997; Leader, Indian Delegation to Human Rights Commission Meeting, Geneva, 1993; and Delegation of Standing Committees of External Affairs to Gulf countries- Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait 

Other Information

Participated in Freedom Struggle and went to jail in 1942; detained during Emergency in 1975-77; was awarded Padma Vibhushan by President of India in recognition of his services to the Nation; Conferred, (i)Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by Kanpur University,1993; (ii) Lok Manya Tilak Puruskar, 1994; (iii) Bharat Ratna Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant Award for Best Parliamentarian, 1994