five children, Ashok Dixit married to Mandakini Dixit (née Haldipurkar), Rahul Dixit married to Rupa Dixit(née Thakkar), Aabha Dixit married V. B (Anand) Dhavle, Dipa Dixit married to Rajiv Shakdher and the late Dhruv Dixit, who died in 2002. His grandchildren are Sanghamitra Dixit, Sumiran and Sagiri Dixit, Jaidev and Abhishek Dhavle and Vasudhaa Shakdher. He married a second time. He was the first National Security Advisor who died in office. Awards and honours India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, was posthumously conferred on J N Dixit in 2005. Works Self in Autumn, 1982 (collection of poems) Anatomy of a Flawed Inheritance: A Survey of Indo–Pak Relations 1970–94, Konark Publishers, 1995 My South Block Years, UBS publi Assignment Colombo, Konark Publishers, 1997. Across Borders: Fifty Years of India's Foreign Policy, PICUS Publishers. 1998. Liberation and Beyond: Indo-Bangladesh Relations 1971–99, Konark Publishers. 1999. An Afghom: Diary-Zahir Shah to Taliban, Konark Publishers, 2000. Indian Foreign Policies and its Neighbours, Gyan Books, New Delhi, 2001. . India’s Foreign Policy—challenge Of Terrorism Fashioning Interstate Equations, by Gyan Books, 2003. External Affairs. Roli Books, 2003. . Indian Foreign Service: History And Challenge. Konark Publishers, 2005. . See also National Security Council Navtej Sarna Taranjit Singh Sandhu Harsh Vardhan Shringla References External links J.N. Dixit, Official biography Indian Embassy J. N. Dixit Columns at Outlook A Mission in Jaffna & the Memories of War-Torn Jaffna 1936 births 2005 deaths Delhi University alumni Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni High Commissioners of India to Pakistan Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations Permanent Delegates of India to UNESCO Indian Foreign Secretaries Indian male writers Foreign policy writers Indian international relations scholars Indian columnists Malayali people Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in civil service High Commissioners of India to Bangladesh Ambassadors of India to Chile Ambassadors of India to Japan Ambassadors of India to Afghanistan High Commissioners of India to Australia High Commissioners of India to Sri Lanka Indian Foreign Service officers Indian political writers 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers Politicians from Chennai Writers from Chennai Indian foreign policy writers Scholars of Indian foreign policy International relations historians Indian Peace Keeping Force People of the Sri Lankan Civil War