Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a famous teacher and author. He took birth in the poor Brahmin family in Tirutani, India on 5th of September in 1888. The name of his father was Sarvepalli Veeraswami who was doing job in the zamindari at very small salary. The name of his mother was Sitamma. Because of the poor economic status he did his education on scholarships. He successfully completed his schooling from Tirutani and Lutheran Mission School, Tirupati.
He completed his B.A. and M.A. degree in philosophy. He got married at his 16 to the Sivakamuamma. He became an Assistant Lectureship in 1909 at Madras Presidency College. He was well aware with the Upanishads, Brahmasutra, Bhagvad Gita, commentaries of Sankara, Madhava, Ramunuja and well aware with the Buddhist and Jain philosophy.
In his later life, he read philosophical commentaries of the Plato, Kant, Bradley, Plotinus, Bergson, Marxism and Existentialism. He met with the mathematical genius named Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1914 while leaving to the Cambridge for studies in order to seek blessings of Radhakrishnan. He became the Professor of Philosophy at University of Mysore in 1918. He also became a famous author and wrote many articles for journals of repute named as The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, The Quest, The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy, the International Journal of Ethics, Journal of Philosophy, etc.
His famous writings had draws the vision of Ashutosh Mookerjee (Vice Chancellor at Calcutta University) and got nominated for the George V Professor of Philosophy at Calcutta University in 1921. He wrote another book named Indian Philosophy on the request made by Prof. J. H. Muirhead for the Library of Philosophy which was published in 1923. His birthday anniversary is getting celebrated every year on 5th of September to honour and pay tribute to his great workings forever. He got died in the 1975 on 17th of April.
He also won Templeton Prize in 1975 (but he donated the Templeton Prize to Oxford University), Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1961, etc. In order to pay him honour forever, university started Radhakrishnan Scholarships in 1989 which was later renamed as Radhakrishnan Chevening Scholarships.
