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The V. K. Krishna Menon Institute was established in 2006 to commemorate and facilitate the life, times and achievements of Menon. One of the Institute's objectives include awarding people from India and diaspora from Asia for their accomplishments in the fields of science, literature, economics, politics, diplomacy and human rights. [ 91 ]
ABOUT US. Bhandup Educational Society established V. K. Krishna Menon College of Commerce & Economics in 1982, and in 1992 Science stream was added to it. Both Streams are aided and affiliated to University of Mumbai.
Brilliant, astute, and point blank, V.K. Krishna Menon was undoubtedly one of the most successful yet aggressive diplomats and statesmen from India. He served at several top positions as the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s close political confidante.
This event is being organised in association with the V.K Krishna Menon Institute. The Institute was launched in 2006 to celebrate and commemorate the life, times, and achievements of this prodigiously talented statesman, India’s first High commissioner in London, Union Minister of India and pioneering London Councillor.
- Early Life and Education
- Roles in Post-Independence India
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Menon was born in an aristocratic Nair family at Thiruvangad Thalassery and later moved to Panniyankara in Kozhikode, Kerala, in the Vengalil family of Malabar. His father Adv. Komath Krishna Kurup, Kottappally, Vatakara, the son of Orlathiri Udayavarma, Raja of Kadathanadu and Komath Sreedevi Kettilamma, was a wealthy and influential lawyer. His m...
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
After India gained independence in 1947, Menon was appointed High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, a post in which he remained until 1952. Menon's intense distrust of the West extended to the United Kingdom itself, and his frequent opposition to British political manoeuvres eventually led MI5 to deem him a "serious menace to security". From 1929 onwards Menon had been kept under surveillance, with a warrant to intercept his correspondence being issued in December 1933, identifying...
India's representative to the United Nations
In 1949, Menon accepted the command of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, a position he would hold until 1962. He earned a reputation for brilliance in the UN, frequently engineering elegant solutions to complex international political issues, including a peace plan for Korea, a ceasefire in Indo-China, the deadlocked disarmament talks, and the French withdrawal from the UN over Algeria.
Minister of Defence
Krishna Menon became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1953 from Madras. In 1956, he joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and was made Minister of Defence in April 1957, after winning the North Mumbai seat to the Lok Sabha. Menon was a substantially more powerful and high-profile figure than his predecessors, and brought with him a degree of governmental, public, and international attention that India's military had not previously known. He suspended the seniority system within...
Evaluations
Menon was an intensely controversial figure during his life, and has remained so even well after his death. Widely described as brilliant and arrogant, he was known for the sheer force of his personality, and for his eloquence and wit as an orator. In response to US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' assertion that US weapons supplied to Pakistan were intended solely for defence against a Soviet invasion, Menon snapped that "the world has yet to see an American gun that can only shoot in...
Jeep scandal
The jeep scandal case in 1948 was the first major corruption case in independent India. Menon, then Indian high commissioner to Britain, ignored protocols and signed a Rs 8 million contract for the purchase of army jeeps with a foreign firm. While most of the money was paid upfront and 155 jeeps landed.[citation needed]
In private, Menon abstained from tobacco, alcohol and meat, often fasting for days, and forwent his luxury townhouse in Kensington Palace Gardens in favour of a single room in the Indian High Commission during his official tenure in London. As high commissioner, Menon drew only the token salary of one rupee per month, later refusing a salary outrig...
The V. K. Krishna Menon Institute was established in 2006 to commemorate and facilitate the life, times and achievements of Menon. One of the Institute's objectives include awarding people from India and diaspora from Asia for their significant accomplishments in the fields of science, literature, economics, politics, diplomacy and human rights. A ...
Abraham, Itty. “From Bandung to NAM: Non-alignment and Indian Foreign Policy, 1947–1965,” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics46#2 (2008): 195-219.Brecher, Michael. "Elite Images and Foreign Policy Choices: Krishna Menon's View of the World." Pacific Affairs 40.1/2 (1967): 60-92. onlineBrecher, Michael, and Janice Gross Stein. India and world politics: Krishna Menon's view of the world(Praeger, 1968).George, T. J. S. (1965). Krishna Menon: A Biography. Taplinger. online free to borrowJul 18, 2013 · Maprayil, who lives in London, is executive director of the V.K. Krishna Menon Institute. “Today, Indian people are proud of the fact that they are subservient to the white man. This was...
May 3, 2018 · This event is being organised in association with the VK Krishna Menon Institute. The Institute was launched in 2006 to celebrate and commemorate the life, times and achievements of this prodigiously talented statesman, India’s first High Commissioner in London, Union Minister of India and pioneering London councillor.
