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Ayyar holds an irreplaceable position among independent India’s pioneering powerhouses on whose elegant shoulders we now stand. Did you know why?

Not many in the country today would have heard of Dr KB Menon or of his journey from a scholar teaching at the Harvard to a stalwart revolutionary in the Malabar, who found his greater calling in the independence struggle for his motherland.

Scholar, teacher, philosopher and statesman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishanan was one of 20th century's greatest thinkers. On Teacher's Day, here are some little-known facts from his inspiring life.