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  N.Raghunathan   The world of journalism knew him as the ‘edit writer of The Hindu for 31 years. N. Raghunathan, who died in 1982, was also a brilliant writer of short stories and plays, capturing in authentic Thanjavur Tamil the disintegration of feudalism and social structure constructed on it in the face of modernism in the beginning of the 20th century.   The natural storyteller in Raghunathan transcends life in agraharam and he could describe the entire society with a unique style, punctuated with rich imagery, possible only for a keen observer of his surroundings.   Raghunathan better known by his name “Vighneswara” was a student of English and Sanskrit literature, and was for many years the lead writer of the Hindu, but it was the writer of the “Sotto Voce” weekly series that he made a significant impact on the readers of Swatantra and Swarajya. CLICK HERE for the Presentation CLICK HERE to read the original text   For the unit-end ...

  Biography of Nirad.C.Chaudhuri:- Nirad C. Chaudhuri was born on 23rd November 1897 in Kishoreganj, presently situated in Bangladesh. He was married to the writer; Amiya Dhar in 1932. They had three sons. His wife later died in 1994 at Oxford in England. Chaudhuri was first educated at Kishorganj and Kolkata and later attended Ripon College in Kolkata. He completed his graduation in history from the prestigious Scottish Church College in Kolkata. He worked as a clerk in the Accounting Department of the Indian Army. It was because of his passion for writing that he started writing articles for magazines. His first published article was ‘Bharat Chandra’ which appeared in Modern Review, an English magazine. Later as a journalist and an editor, Chaudhuri wrote for magazines like Modern Review, Probasi, and Sonibarer Chithi. He also founded two Bengali magazines titled Samasamayik and Notun Patnika.   In 1938 he worked as a secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, a political leader...

    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (born Sept. 5, 1888, Tiruttani, India—died April 16, 1975, Madras [now Chennai]), a scholar and statesman who was president of India from 1962 to 1967. He served as professor of philosophy at Mysore (1918–21) and Calcutta (1921–31; 1937–41) universities and as vice chancellor of Andhra University (1931–36). He was professor of Eastern religions and ethics at the University of Oxford in England (1936–52) and vice chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (1939–48) in India. From 1953 to 1962 he was chancellor of the University of Delhi.   Radhakrishnan led the Indian delegation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; 1946–52) and was elected chairman of UNESCO’s executive board (1948–49). From 1949 to 1952 he served as Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union. On his return to India in 1952 he was elected vice president, and on May 11, 1962, he was elected president, succeeding Rajendra Prasad, who was ...