V K Krishna Menon Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

V. K. Krishna Menon was born on 03 May 1896 AD to a prosperous Nair family in Calicut, Madras (now Chennai). His full name was "Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon". He was from a wealthy family. His father's name was Komathu Krishna Kurup Dhani who was a lawyer.

V. K. Krishna Menon died on 6 October 1974 (age 78) in Delhi, India.

Menon's primary education was in Thalassery and his B.A. He received his degree from the Presidency College, Chennai. He joined theology while studying at Madras Law College and was actively associated with Annie Besant and the Home Rule Movement.

Krishna Menon joined theology while studying at Madras Law College and was actively associated with Annie Besant and the Home Rule Movement. He was a leading member of the "" Brothers of Service "established by Anne Besant, who recognized his talent and helped him travel to England in 1924. In England, he served as a journalist and Secretary of the India League (1929–1947) and joined fellow Indian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1934 he was inducted into the English Bar and after joining the Labor Party he was elected Municipal Councilor of St Pancras, London. In 1932, he led a fact-finding delegation led by Labor MP Alan Wilkinson to visit India. Menon was its secretary and edited its report titled "" Circumstances in India ". During the Thirties he co-founded the Penguin and Pelican Paper Back books with Ellen Lane.

He worked as head of Bodley, Penguin and Pelican Books, and editor of the Twentieth Century Library. After India gained independence in 1947, Menon was appointed High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, a post he held until 1952. During his tenure as the High Commissioner in Britain, he was accused of a corruption scandal in the purchase of used military jeeps from Britain during the India-Pakistan War of 1948 and supplied to the Indian Army, but nothing was proved. . He then led the Indian delegation to the United Nations, where he sharply criticized the US and adopted a policy of non-alignment. On 23 January 1957, he gave an unexpected speech for 8 hours defending India's stand on Kashmir. The speech by Krishna Menon is the longest speech ever delivered at the UN Security Council. In 1953 Krishna Menon became a member of the Rajya Sabha. On 3 February 1956, he was inducted into the Union Cabinet as Minister without Department. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Mumbai in 1957 and in April of the same year was named the Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Nehru. He was behind the concept of Sainik Schools in India under the aegis of Sainik School Society which currently runs 24 schools in India. However, after India's defeat in the 1962 Indo-China war, he resigned from his post due to lack of military preparedness in the country.

V. K. Krishna Menon was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second best civilian award, in the year 1954. He was the first Malayali to receive this award. He was awarded the independence of the Borough by St. Panras, the second man after Bernard Shaw to receive this honor. In 1930, Menon was awarded an MA in Industrial Psychology with First Class Honors from University College London for a thesis entitled Experimental Studies in Reasoning and in 1934 he was awarded a First Class Honors in Politics in Politics has been awarded. From the London School of Economics, for a thesis called English Political Thought in the seventeenth century. V. K. The Krishna Menon Institute was established in 2006 to commemorate the life, times and achievements of Menon. The objectives of the institute include rewarding the people of India and the people of Asia for notable achievements in the fields of science, literature, economics, politics, diplomacy and human rights.