V.K. Krishna Menon did not speak Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, or Malayalam during poll campaigns. But he was elected to the Lok Sabha from constituencies whose voters spoke these languages as their mother tongue – Bombay North, Midnapore, and Thiruvananthapuram.
Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai and Shashi Tharoor, MP, highlighted these here on Thursday at an event to launch an international foundation in memory of the late diplomat and former Defence Minister who hailed from Kozhikode city. While Mr. Pillai opened the V.K. Krishna Menon International Foundation, Mr. Tharoor presided over the event.
The Goa Governor pointed out that eminent people like Menon, who once strode the diplomatic world like a colossus, were now consigned to the dustbin of history. “He was elected as a councillor to the London Municipal Corporation, to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu, to the Lok Sabha from Maharashtra, West Bengal, and then Kerala. He was someone who made every crisis an opportunity to prove his mettle,” Mr. Pillai said.
