A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's demand to add images of Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesh on Indian currency notes (ICN), clamour grew on Thursday among various political parties to 'topple' or 'overcrowd' Mahatma Gandhi's .
IrishCentral Contributor Arunansh B. Goswami, a historian and lawyer in India, looks at the relationship between Irish man Aylmer Martin Crofts and Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (born Sept. 5, 1888, Tiruttani, India died April 16, 1975, Madras [now Chennai]), 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 Benares 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