Bhim Singh to Che Guevara, for his decades long lobbying for amendment to Article 370, to fully integrate Jammu and Kashmir into India. The second volume of his book documenting his global travels, "Peace Mission Around the World on Motorcycle (Vol. II)", was released by Dr. Karan Singh the erstwhile crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir. Academics and student leadership On his travels he attended the University of London earning an LL.M. and was the first Indian to be elected Secretary of the University of London Union in 1971. Later in 1972, Bhim Singh was called to the bar at law, as a specialist on Palestine and Middle East affairs. Before returning to Jammu and Kashmir to engage in politics, Bhim Singh worked as a professor of international law at Cambridge University. Early activism Friendship with Yasser Arafat Bhim Singh has been a vocal supporter of Arafat for over three decades and was the chairman of the Indo-Palestine Friendship Society. He first met a young Yasser Arafat in 1968 at a Red Cross office on the east bank of the Jordan river. In 1973 Bhim Singh would travel to Syria in support of Arafat and join the PLO over the dispute of Golan Heights between Israel and Syria during the Yom Kippur War. When in 1992 Arafat was exiled from Lebanon, Bhim Singh would once again visit him in support in Tunis and a few years later Singh would travel to Ramallah to see Arafat, where he had set up a temporary capital for Palestine. In 2016 Palestinian ambassador Adnan Abu Alhaija, released Bhim Singh's documentary film on Yasser Arafat at a screening in New Delhi. International visits Bhim Singh first visited Hiroshima in 1972. Meeting survivors of the nuclear attacks on Japan, influenced his future campaigning for complete disarmament, and against American military interventions. He would return to Hiroshima several times throughout his political career on 6 August, the anniversary of the atomic bombing, to observe the fast for disarmament at Peace Memorial Park, and lecture on world unity. He was the first Indian to travel to over 150 countries in the 1970s, and wrote a book to document his travels. Political career Singh in 1973 was appointed president of the Youth Congress in Jammu and Kashmir by then prime minister Indira Gandhi, he then went on to become a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee. Foundation