civilisation but a succession of great men from the Buddha to Gandhi, from Ashoka to Nehru, from Kautilya to Menon." Commemoration The V. K. Krishna Menon Institute was established in 2006 to commemorate and facilitate the life, times and achievements of Menon. One of the Institute's objectives include awarding people from India and diaspora from Asia for their significant accomplishments in the fields of science, literature, economics, politics, diplomacy and human rights. A blue plaque commemorating Menon was placed at 30 Langdon Park Road, in Highgate, London by English Heritage in 2013. References Bibliography Abraham, Itty. "From Bandung to NAM: Non-alignment and Indian Foreign Policy, 1947–1965", Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 46#2 (2008): 195–219. Brecher, Michael. "Elite Images and Foreign Policy Choices: Krishna Menon's View of the World." Pacific Affairs 40.1/2 (1967): 60–92. online Brecher, Michael, and Janice Gross Stein. India and world politics: Krishna Menon's view of the world (Praeger, 1968). online free to borrow Lengyel, Krishna_Menon (1962) online free McGarr, Paul M. "'A Serious Menace to Security': British Intelligence, V.K. Krishna Menon and the Indian High Commission in London, 1947–52." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38.3 (2010): 441–469. McGarr, Paul M. ""India's Rasputin"?: V.K. Krishna Menon and Anglo–American Misperceptions of Indian Foreign Policymaking, 1947–1964." Diplomacy & Statecraft 22.2 (2011): 239–260. Janaki Ram, V. K. Krishna Menon: a personal memoir (1997). External links Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon P. N. Haksar: Krishna: As I knew him Statements by V. K. Krishna Menon at the United Nations T. J. S. George: `Krishna Menon', Jonathan Cape, 1964. Theft of two statues of Menon from a London park How a young man from Calicut became the publisher who helped change British thinking |- |- |- |- 1896 births 1974 deaths Malayali politicians Union Ministers from Kerala Indian Hindus People from Kozhikode district Presidency College, Chennai alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of London Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law Members of the Middle Temple Indian independence activists from Kerala 20th-century Indian lawyers Indian civil rights activists Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala Indian nationalists Nehru administration Defence Ministers of India India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1962–1967 India MPs 1967–1970 India MPs 1971–1977 Politicians from Mumbai Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in public affairs Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo Rajya Sabha members from Kerala