citizenship nationality ethnicity language period genre article_title education name occupation alma_mater
india indian indo aryan english 1987 historical parvez dewan
 st. stephen 's college , delhi parvez dewan writer and administrator wolfson college , university of cambridge
parvez dewan

parvez dewan is an indian administrator , author and librettist -lrb- lyricist -rrb- .
he is an indian administrative services -lrb- ias -rrb- officer of jammu and kashmir cadre .
he became secretary of the ministry of overseas indian affairs in 2011 , and also the chairman of the overseas indian facilitation centre -lrb- oifc -rrb- .
in 2012 he was appointed india 's tourism secretary .
dewan has authored books on the indian state of jammu & kashmir , religion -lrb- hinduism , islam , buddhism -rrb- as well as on tibet .
