Nehru, who had also been the Minister for External Affairs during his 16 years as PM, held that K. R. Narayanan was " the best diplomat of the country.

He did not, however, respond when Narayanan pointed out that he had defeated Communist candidates ( A. K. Balan and Lenin Rajendran, the latter twice ) in all three elections.

On his relationship with the Left front, Narayanan later clarified that he was neither a devotee nor a blind opponent of Communism ; they had known of his ideological differences, but had supported him as Vice President ( and later as President ) because of special political circumstances that prevailed in the country.

T. N. Seshan was the sole opposing candidate, and all major parties save the Shiv Sena supported his candidature., while Seshan alleged that Narayanan had been elected solely for being a Dalit.

In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.

Four siblings, K. R. Gowri, K. R. Bhargavi, K. R. Bharathi, and K. R. Bhaskaran, survived him ; two elder brothers had died when Narayanan was in his twenties.

She had a brother P. Narayanan who was an educationalist.

Narayanan ( 1893 – 1979 ), an early twentieth century social reform activist from the Central Travancore town of Mavelikara and a younger generation contemporary and follower of social reformer and saint Sree Narayana Guru.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

K. R. Narayanan was born in a small thatched hut at Perumthanam, Uzhavoor, as the fourth of seven children of Kocheril Raman Vaidyar, a physician practicing the traditional Indian medical systems of Siddha and Ayurveda, and Punnaththuraveettil Paappiyamma.

K. R. Narayanan dedicated ( 15 February 2005 ) his tharavaadu at Uzhavoor to the Santhigiri Ashram in Pothencode for the purpose of establishing the Navajyothisree Karunakara Guru research centre for Siddha and Ayurveda.

Villagers of Uzhavoor marched silently to the tharavaadu of K. R. Narayanan and paid him reverent homage.

During this time he once interviewed Mahatma Gandhi in Bombay on his own volition ( 10 April 1945 ). Narayanan then went to England ( 1945 ) and studied political science under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics ( LSE ); he also attended lectures by Karl Popper, Lionel Robbins, and Friedrich Hayek.

Narayanan entered politics at the request of Indira Gandhi and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1989, and 1991, as a representative of the Ottapalam constituency in Palakkad, Kerala, on an Congress ticket.

In the general elections of 1998, K. R. Narayanan became the first sitting President to vote ( 16 February 1998 ), casting his vote at a polling booth in a school within the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex after standing in a queue like an ordinary citizen.

Narayanan opted himself out from a contest at this point.

K. R. Narayanan died on 9 November 2005 at the Army Research and Referral Hospital, New Delhi, after being briefly ill with pneumonia and consequent renal failure.

Narayanan died in New Delhi at the age of 85.

The K. R. Narayanan Foundation ( K. R. N. F ) founded in December 2005, aims at propagating the ideals and perpetuating the memory of K. R. Narayanan.

K. R. N. F is also producing a documentary ( both in Malayalam and English ) on the life of K. R. Narayanan, entitled The Footprints Of Survival, aimed at propagating the ideals and perpetuating the memory of K. R. Narayanan.

There are at least three different translations of Ponniyin Selvan available in English-by Indra Neelamegam CV Karthik Narayanan, and an ongoing one by Pavithra Srinivasan.

His recent important lectures include M. N. Saha Memorial lecture of the National Academy of Sciences ; J. C. Bose Memorial lecture at the Royal Society of London ; Third Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture, New Delhi ; K R Narayanan Oration at the Australian National University, Canberra ; 28th Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Lecture, Ahmedabad Management Association, Ahmedabad ; Prof. D. S.

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Oration, Australia South Asia Research Centre, at the Australian National University at Canberra, Austrail, 20 July 2006 and reprinted by Pub.

* India's Space Enterprise: A Case Study in Strategic Thinking and Planning, Dr Kasturirangan's 2006 Narayanan Oration at the Australia South Asia Research Centre ( ASARC )

Kavalappara Narayanan Nair was his main teacher at ' Kerala Kalamandalam ' where he was asked to join as a special student for higher studies in northern style, which gives importance to gestures movements and footsteps.

Narayanan Nair, a native of Kavalappara east of Shoranur in Palakkad district, was primarily trained under his guru Puthenveettil Sekhara Menon at the local Kaliyogam ( Kathakali school ) run by the Kavalappara palace.

According to Dr Narayanan, the bridge is located at the " world's second highly corrosive environment ", next to Miami, US, making the construction a challenging job.

Ajitha was indoctrinated to Marxism at a very young age through her parents to Kunnikal Narayanan and Mandakini, who were both its prominent supporters.

:* Public Forum Debate: Garg / Narayanan, Plano Senior High School

When Edatata Narayanan wanted to make some editorial changes amidst reported opposition from the editorial staff, he told them in no uncertain terms that he belonged to the school of journalism where the editor's view is final.

* Catanzaro, Bryan ; Sundaram, Narayanan ; and Keutzer, Kurt ; Fast Support Vector Machine Training and Classification on Graphics Processors, in International Conference on Machine Learning, 2008

Elected as the ninth Vice President in 1992, Narayanan went on to become President in 1997.

He was born on 27 October 1920, but his uncle, who accompanied him on his first day in school, did not know his actual date of birth, and arbitrarily chose 27 October 1920 for the records ; Narayanan later chose to let it remain official.

K. R. Narayanan with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 3 October 2000.

While working in Rangoon, Burma ( Myanmar ), K. R. Narayanan met Ma Tint Tint, whom he later married in Delhi on 8 June 1951.

Ma Tint Tint was active in the YWCA and on hearing that Narayanan was a student of Laski, approached him to speak on political freedom before her circle of acquaintances.

Usha Narayanan ( 1923 – 2008 ) worked on several social welfare programs for women and children in India.

K. R. Narayanan was elected as the Vice President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.

K. R. Narayanan was elected to the Presidency of India ( 17 July 1997 ) with 95 % of the votes in the electoral college, as a result of the Presidential poll on 14 July.

One of the coalition partners supporting the minority government ( the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam under J. Jayalalithaa ) wrote a letter to the President withdrawing support on 14 April 1999, and Narayanan advised Vajpayee to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.

Narayanan suggested to Vajpayee that the Rajya Sabha be convened to discuss the conflict, as demanded by several opposition parties ( citing the precedent of Nehru convening a parliamentary session on Vajpayee's demand during the Sino-Indian war in 1962 ) though there was no precedent of convening the Rajya Sabha in isolation during an interregnum.

Further, Narayanan was briefed by the chiefs of the three arms of the Indian Armed Forces on the conduct of the conflict.

President Narayanan spoke on various occasions on the condition of the Dalits, Adivasis, and other backward sections of society, and the various iniquities they faced ( often in defiance of law ), such as denial of civic amenities, ostracism, harassment and violence ( particularly against women ), and displacement by ill-conceived development projects.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

In his farewell address to the nation ( 24 July 2002 ), K. R. Narayanan set his hopes for social action and progress on the service of the nation by its youth.

Reflecting on his Presidency, K. R. Narayanan said:

After his retirement as President, K. R. Narayanan, along with his wife Usha, lived his remaining years in a central Delhi bungalow ( on 34 Prithviraj Road ).