About Amish
Public Life & Cultural Work
From October 2019 to October 2023 Amish served as Minister (Culture & Education) at the High Commission of India in the United Kingdom and as Director of The Nehru Centre in London — a role within India’s Ministry of External Affairs. He led a programme of book launches, talks, panels, music and dance that reconnected the diaspora with its roots and introduced British audiences to Indian culture; when the pandemic closed the building, the Centre took its entire programme online and multiplied its reach.
He speaks regularly at literature festivals, universities and global forums, putting forward an Indian perspective on culture and civilisation. In 2014 he was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow, and in January 2026 the University of York conferred on him an honorary doctorate.
Cultural diplomacy, London 2019–2023
Four years at The Nehru Centre and the Indian High Commission: book launches, panels, music and dance, and conversations that took India’s culture to new audiences.
With former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, Lord Meghnad Desai and Lord Jeffrey Archer 
With Narotam Sekhsaria, founder of Gujarat Ambuja 
With Sajid Javid, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care 
With bestselling author Lord Jeffrey Archer 
Speaking at an event for the British Asian Trust 
At the BAPS Swaminarayan temple, Neasden, with Manoj Ladwa and trustees of the temple 
With author and philanthropist Sudha Murty 
With Pawan Munjal, CEO of Hero MotoCorp, at the India Global Forum 
Speaking at John Lyon School, Harrow 
With Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej 
With Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone 
With Deepak Chopra