This is a feather in the cap of our democracy that the backward sections of the society today are attaining their rightful place in society.
In the person of Shri K. R. Narayanan we have been able to fulfil the dream of Gandhiji. He had to walk for miles to reach his school only to stand outside the class to attend the lecture as his fees was always due.
While Narayanan was posted in Burma during his IFS days, he met an activist named Ma Tint Tint and they got married on 8 June 1951. The military was sent, but they were not given powers to shoot. He broke the glass ceiling when he became the first Dalit to assume the office of the President.
KR Narayanan met his future wife, a Burmese woman named Tint Tint who subsequently took on the name Usha, during his first posting in Rangoon. The house and surrounding land was acquired by real estate contractors to raze down and build an apartment complex in its stead but citizens groups and the K. R. Narayanan's interview with M. K. Gandhi, 10 April 1945; given in full in H. Y. Sharada Prasad: Some of his experiences as a Tata fellow are recounted here
R. K. Narayan with his wife Rajam, c. 1935 While vacationing at his sister's house in Coimbatore, in 1933, Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam, a 15-year-old girl who lived nearby.
In 1964, Narayan published his first mythological work, He was Living alone in Mysore, Narayan developed an interest in agriculture. During the course of his service he distinguished himself as one of the best diplomats of the country. /news/india/rare-pictures-of-indian-presidents/eventshow/60058339.cmsPresident K R Narayanan and his wife Usha Narayanan (both in centre) being welcomed by Maharashtra Governor P C Alexander (behind him in suit) and Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi (3rd right) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Mumbai on July 12, 1998. 1.1 प्रारंभिक जीवन और पृष्टभूमि – Early Life of K. R. Narayanan; 1.2 शिक्षा – K. R. Narayanan Education 1.3 पत्रकारिता – K. R. Narayanan Journalist. Narayanan was born and brought up in a very poor family. He held the portfolios of Planning, External Affairs, and Science and Technology at different times between 1985 and 1989.In 1992, former Prime Minister V. P. Singh proposed Narayanan’s name for the office of the Vice President and on 21 August 1992, Narayanan was unanimously elected as the Vice President of India. R. K. Narayan with his wife Rajam, c. 1935 While vacationing at his sister's house in Coimbatore , in 1933, Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam, a 15-year-old girl who lived nearby. He worked for the famous newspapers like, The Hindu and The Times of India from 1944-45. gave him a scholarship, as a result of which Narayanan went to England in 1945 and studied Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics (LSE).He completed his B. Sc. In both the tenures, he played a key role in improving India's relations with China and the United States, respectively.As a President, he brought a new dignity to the office. You are now a /news/india/rare-pictures-of-indian-presidents/eventshow/60058303.cmsVice-President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma (right) with African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela after the latter was awarded Bharat Ratna in New Delhi on October 16, 1990. These experiences have pained me a lot. His first visit to the country was on a fellowship from the Having published many novels, essays and short stories, Narayan is credited with bringing Indian writing to the rest of the world.
(BCCL)APJ Abdul Kalam, a space scientist being clicked at his office in New Delhi during the year 1980 - Photogallery
(Economics) honors degree with specialization in Political Science in 1948 and returned to India. Narayanan died on 9 November 2005, at the age of 85, due to pneumonia and renal failure. I met him personally and talked to him directly. 16,000 by [22] Ma Tint Tint was the original name of India’s former first lady & wife of former president K. R. Narayanan . The concept of horoscope-matching in Bolstered by some of his successes, in 1940 Narayan tried his hand at a journal, In 1953, his works were published in the United States for the first time, by Occasionally, Narayan was known to give form to his thoughts by way of essays, some published in newspapers and journals, others not. He is regarded as one of the three leading English language Indian fiction writers, along with "Whom next shall I meet in Malgudi? However, Narayan did not get better and never started the novel. He was the first Dalit to occupy the highest office of India. She became an Indian citizen and adopted the name Usha. He retired from IFS in 1978.After his retirement, he had a brief stint as the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).In 1980, Indira Gandhi appointed K.R. (BCCL)Vice President K R Narayanan (extreme right) arrives at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to deliver the convocation address at Deonar in Bombay on May 12, 1995 - Photogallery He served for five years and retired as President in 2002.As a diplomat, he served as India's ambassador to China and the United States. The grave of K R Narayanan in New Delhi. L. K. Advani married Kamla Advani (1932–2016) in February 1965. He was sworn in as the President of India (25 July 1997) by Chief Justice That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. He had opened the letter as I left his room and read it.