Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Second president of Free India (1952 - 1962)
Some achievements and milestones of the wise one:
- A portrait of Radhakrishnan adorns the Chamber of the Rajya Sabha.
- 1933–37: Nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1938: elected Fellow of the British Academy.
- 1961: the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
- 962: Institution of Teacher's Day in India, yearly celebrated at 5 September, Radhakrishnan's birthday, in honour of Radhakrishnan's belief that "teachers should be the best minds in the country"
- 1968: Sahitya Akademi fellowship, The highest honour conferred by the Sahitya Akademi on a writer (he is the first person to get this award)
- 1975: the Templeton Prize in 1975, a few months before his death, for advocating non-aggression and conveying "a universal reality of God that embraced love and wisdom for all people."[web 12][note 11] He donated the entire amount of the Templeton Prize to Oxford University.
- 1989: institution of the Radhakrishnan Scholarships by Oxford University in the memory of Radhakrishnan. The scholarships were later renamed the "Radhakrishnan Chevening Scholarships"
- He was nominated sixteen times for the Nobel prize in literature, and eleven times for the Nobel Peace prize.