Mysore/Mysuru: Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (V.K. Krishna Menon) continues to draw our attention not just because he was Jawaharlal Nehru's confidant and political soul-mate but also for many of his own political and literary accomplishments.
A relentless crusader for Indian independence in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a global star at the United Nations in the 1950s before he was forced to resign as Defence Minister in the wake of India-China war of 1962. Meticulously researched and based entirely on new archival material, Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh’s biography, ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’, reveals Menon in all his capabilities and contradictions.
