Ajai Malhotra Stockholm (Nairobi; 1982); contribution to the drafting of the 1990 London Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Statement of Principles on Forests, and Agenda 21; and participation in the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro; 1992). He was a member of the UNEP group of legal experts to examine the concept of "Common Concern of Mankind" in relation to global environmental issues. He was Counsellor (Information) at the Indian Embassy, Moscow, from 1993–1996, returning to
The Horse that Lost its Liberty (1484) under the title “Of the hors, of the hunter and of the hert” as teaching the moral given by Aristotle that "None ought to put hym self in subiection for to auenge hym on other". Samuel Croxall cites Horace’s conclusion that one should never yield one’s liberty to another for reasons of avarice. The fable was told as “The horse seeking vengeance on the stag ("Le cheval s'étant voulu venger du cerf") in La Fontaine's Fables and ends on the reflection that without personal liberty all other purchases are valueless: The alternative version of the fable concerns a boar