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	Citizen President
		Narayanan said that he realised the importance of education fairly early in life and that the endless passion for learning had, in his own assessment, shaped his understanding of the world and contributed to his successful social journey.
		Narayanan went on to suggest that the global village in "this age of democracy" would be headed not by a "village headman" but by the "global panchayat", loosely symbolised by the United Nations.
		Narayanan was of the view that the judicial system should respond to questions of deprivation, social discrimination and justice within its own organisational structure.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2224/stories/20051202005012500.htm (1709 words)

	K. R. Narayanan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Narayanan was born in his ancestral home (tharavaadu), a small thatched hut at Perumthanam, Uzhavoor, as the fourth of seven children of Kocheril Raman Vaidyar, a physician practising the traditional Indian medical systems of Siddha and Ayurveda.
		Narayanan was elected as the Vice-President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.
		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 from the constituency of Ottapalam in Palakkad, Kerala, on the Congress ticket.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/K.R._Narayanan (2535 words)

	The Hindu : National : K.R. Narayanan — President who defied stereotype
		Narayanan made a case for giving a sense of economic liberation to the masses, "and for that, I think the basic thing we have done or we attempted to do, in the beginning — and we have not yet completed that process — is that of land reform."
		Born into a Dalit family in Uzhavoor village in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore, Narayanan was the fourth of seven children in the household of Kocheril Raman Vaidyar, an ayurvedic physician.
		President Narayanan was a brilliant example of a man who made his office rather than have his office make him.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/10/stories/2005111003281400.htm (1759 words)

	Ex-President K R Narayanan dead
		Former President K R Narayanan, who was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi on October 29 in a 'very critical' condition, passed away Wednesday.
		Narayanan, a career diplomat before entering politics in 1984, was the unanimous choice of political parties when he became President in 1997 for a term till 2002.
		Narayanan had served as Minister for Science and Technology and Minister of State for Defence in the Rajiv Gandhi government.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/nov/09narayanan.htm (343 words)

	Distinction and dignity
		Narayanan then sought to invoke the doctrine of the President's "pleasure" to remove the delinquent Governor, but stayed his hand when he was informed that the Union Cabinet's advice, which could be the only basis for his action, would not be tendered.
		Today, with Narayanan having left office to settle down to a life of retirement and reminiscence, the greatest tribute to his record in office is that he has in difficult times established a pattern of presidential conduct that will remain a standard for reference far into the future.
		Narayanan again returned the Cabinet's advice for reconsideration, pointing out that the overwhelming evidence that the State government enjoyed the confidence of the legislature could not be disregarded.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1916/19161270.htm (2201 words)

	President of India : Former Presidents
		Shri Narayanan was born on October 27, 1920 in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.
		Narayanan has a Masters Degree from the Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi University and her field of specialization is 'Juvenile Delinquency'.
		Shri Narayanan was sent as a political appointee to be India's Ambassador to the United States of America from 1980-84.
	presidentofindia.nic.in /scripts/formerpresidents.jsp (12969 words)

	A Tribute To K R Narayanan By V.B.Rawat
		Narayanan was well respected by even his opponents but the Hindutva liked him as long as he was not disturbing their equations.
		WE had Ambedkar who drafted Indian constitution and the Hindu code Bill, we had Jagjivan Ram who headed many ministries successful and we had K R Narayanan who left his marks everywhere he went.
		Narayanan, reminded all those government who were going ga ga over their act of ommissions and commissions that everything in India was not that shining as they might beleive in.
	www.countercurrents.org /india-rawat151105.htm (1405 words)

	Former Indian President Narayanan Dies
		The soft-spoken, scholarly Narayanan was admitted to an army hospital in the capital Oct. 29 with pneumonia and kidney failure.
		The son of a traditional "Ayurvedic" medicine physician, Narayanan was born in a poor household in the village of Uzhavoor in the southern state of Kerala on Oct. 27, 1920.
		Narayanan's rise to the top was remarkable in a country where "untouchables," now known as "Dalits," are the lowest members of society, having faced ridicule and hostility for centuries.
	www.softcom.net /webnews/wed/az/Ayb85155245.R7Qf_FO9.html (685 words)

	Patrons and Partners - Association of British Scholars India.
		K R Narayanan was born on 27 October, 1920 in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerela.
		K R Narayanan is married to Usha Narayanan.
		K R Narayanan was President of India for the period 1997-2002.
	www.abs-india.org /aboutus/patrons.aspx (272 words)

	A profile of KR Narayanan
		Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born at Uzhavoor in Central Kerala on 27 th October 1920 as the fourth of the seven children of Raman Vaidyan, a dalit traditional medical practitioner.
		Malayalees all over the world felt proud when Sri K. Narayanan was elected as the seventh President of India, the highest elected office in the country, in June 1997.
		On return from London, Narayanan was inducted to the prestigious Indian Foreign Service, and represented India as a diplomat in many important world capitals.
	www.kala.org.uk /KR%20Narayanan.htm (599 words)

	KR Narayanan
		Kocheril Raman Narayanan, popularly known as KR Narayanan assumed office as the 11th President of India on July 25, 1997.
		A man with a multifaceted personality, Narayanan worked as an academician, administrator, journalist, diplomat, and as a politician.
		Narayanan has summoned, on occasion, senior bureaucrats and cabinet ministers to be briefed on issues, whereas propriety demanded that he do this through the Prime Minister, the head of the government.
	www.keral.com /celebrities/krnarayanan (417 words)

	'Vajpayee govt supported Gujarat riots'
		While he was President, Narayanan had attacked political parties, especially the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, criticising it of using religion for political purposes, thereby degenerating political values in the country.
		However, recently Narayanan gave a freewheeling interview to Congress legislator from Kerala P T Thomas where he strongly criticised the former Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
		ormer President K R Narayanan's term in office is often considered one of the most controversial tenures served by any President.
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/07inter1.htm (1042 words)

	Time and Tide: K R Narayanan -- India's scholar President
		K R Narayanan -- arguably only the second person of such eminence, after S Radhakrishnan, to occupy the high constitutional position -- passed away yesterday in Delhi after battling lung and renal problems.
		Narayanan will always be looked upon as an ideal, who refused to bow down to adversity and who blended sound intellect with purposeful social practice to make India a still better place on Earth.
		Again, like Narayanan, he has infused life and dynamism to Presidency in his own way.
	bpradeepnair.blogspot.com /2005/11/k-r-narayanan-indias-scholar-president.html (887 words)

	INDIA FIRST FOUNDATION
		President K R Narayanan is, of course, still with us, but his career in public life shall probably end next week as he steps out of Rashtrapati Bhawan.
		Nehru, always flirting with a fashionable socialism himself, was impressed enough to send K R Narayanan to be interviewed by three ICS officials -- Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, K P S Menon, and one of their British colleagues.
		(That in itself says something of Narayanan; by 1948, Laski was a fervid proponent of the all-encompassing state forcing socialism down the throats of the populace.
	www.indiafirstfoundation.org /archives/articles/arc_tvrs/2002/july1502.htm (939 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Narayanan served as member of the Indian delegation for the Non- Aligned Nations Conference as well as the Indian Delegation to UN Conference.
		As a politician, Narayanan was respected by all in the political spectrum.
		Mr Narayanan was the President of India from July 25, 1997 to July 25, 2002.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051110/main1.htm (1294 words)

	K R Narayanan's final act of charity
		Narayanan's modest, four-room tiled house at Uzhavoor, where his sister K R Gowri and brother K R Bhaskaran stayed was perhaps the only property he financially helped his siblings with.
		The last time former President K R Narayanan was in his home state of Kerala was in February, along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for realising his last dream, perhaps - dedicate his ancestral home for the study of ayurveda and siddha.
		Narayanan talked to the Ashram officials, and within months, the former president brought in Dr Singh to hand over the keys of his modest home for setting up an ayurveda and siddha research centre.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/nov/09iype.htm (543 words)

	K. R. Narayanan Dies at 85; 'Untouchable' India President - New York Times
		Narayanan called himself, was born in Uzhavoor, a tiny village in the backwaters of the southern state of Kerala.
		Narayanan's body will be cremated with full military honors on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, near the funeral ground of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, the government-run news media reported.
		Narayanan is survived by his wife, Usha, and two daughters, Amrita and Chitra, who is India's ambassador to Turkey.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/10/international/asia/10narayanan.html?ex=1289278800&en=ec04ac1809819693&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (640 words)

	KR Narayanan
		Kocheril Raman Narayanan, popularly known as KR Narayanan assumed office as the 11th President of India on July 25, 1997.
		A man with a multifaceted personality, Narayanan worked as an academician, administrator, journalist, diplomat, and as a politician.
		Narayanan has summoned, on occasion, senior bureaucrats and cabinet ministers to be briefed on issues, whereas propriety demanded that he do this through the Prime Minister, the head of the government.
	www.keral.com /celebrities/krnarayanan (455 words)

	Narayanan Krishnamurthi
		R. Venugopal, A. Prasad, K. Narayanan and L.D. Iasemidis, "Nonlinear Noise Reduction and Predictability of Epileptic Seizures", The Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Palm Springs, USA, 2003, pp.
		Narayanan, K., R.B. Govindan and M.S. Gopinathan (2000) Evidence for low dimension chaos in electrically coupled chemical oscillator in batch condition, Indian J. Chem.
		Narayanan, K., J.J. Collins, J. Hamner, S. Mukai, and L.A. Lipsitz, "Predicting Cerebral Blood Flow Response to Orthostatic Stress from Resting Dynamics: Effects of healthy aging", The American Journal of Physiology, 281: R716-R722 (2001).
	www.public.asu.edu /~nkrish2 (1101 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Narayanan Kocheril Raman
		Narayanan, Kocheril Raman (1920-), Indian diplomat and politician, President of India (1997-2002).
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Narayanan Kocheril Raman
		Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (1888-1970), Indian physicist, best known for his research on the molecular scattering of light.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Narayanan_Kocheril_Raman.html (87 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: George Iype visits Uzhavoor, the President-elect's village
		Narayanan's father, Kocheril Raman Vaidyar, was an Ayurvedic physician; Gowri is a homoeopath.
		Though Narayanan's Paravan origins are being discussed threadbare elsewhere, it is not an issue in his house, or elsewhere in Uzhavoor.
		Narayanan himself is attached to the school, visiting it often.
	www.rediff.com /news/jul/17pres1.htm (1166 words)

	Narayanan, Kocheril Raman -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Kocheril Raman Narayanan was sworn in as the country's 10th president and thus became the first untouchable (a member of India's lowest social caste as determined by heredity) to occupy the post.
		An intellectual and a scholar, Narayanan was the author or coauthor of several works on Indian politics and international relations, notably India and America: Essays in Understanding (1984) and Non-Alignment in Contemporary International Relations (1981).
		President K.R. Narayanan, a scholar and a diplomat,...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9354267 (978 words)

	Narayanan, Kocheril Raman
		Narayanan was educated in India and England, and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1949.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0059774.html (212 words)

	Dasu Krishnamoorthy Media Site - politics
		Narayanan may not remember that exactly fifty years ago, the Constitution conferred on the minorities a clutch of articles that created an entrenched stake for them to remain as apartheid communities.
		Khare is happy that Narayanan had refused, as he had done for the last five years, to be swept off his feet by the razzle-dazzle of the ´market magic.´ So what?
		Narayanan failed to grab an opportunity to be different and to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
	www.dasukrishnamoorty.com /politics-exit-narayanan.html (1219 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Narayanan left the meeting overawed by the encounter and was walking in the corridor outside Nehru's office when he heard someone clapping.
		Narayanan had an elder brother, Neelakantan, who was mostly confined to the house because he suffered acute asthma.
		Narayanan's father valued knowledge tremendously, but couldn't afford to send all his seven children to English-medium schools, where kids learned to cope with the British empire and world at large.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/1114/is1.html (2303 words)

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		Narayanan led an illustrious life as a teacher, journalist, diplomat, vice-chancellor, Member of Parliament, vice-president, minister and finally President...
		Narayanan led an illustrious life as a teacher, journalist, diplomat, vice-chancellor, Member of Parliament, vice-president, minister and finally President.
	www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_krnarayanan (500 words)

	Daily Excelsior...Business
		Expressing concern over the growing fiscal deficit, President K R Narayanan today stressed the need for adoption of tough economic measures in the coming financial year including downsizing the Government, reduction in Government expenditure and subsidy provided on various goods and services as well as curbing the rising trend of non-plan expenditure.
		Mr Narayanan said the Government is committed to implement the social and economic agenda with an aim to expand economy and ensuring growing employment and rising income for all citizens.
		Announcing this after the board meeting here today, Chairman K B Dadiseth said the company has also recommended a final dividend of Rs 17 on Rs 10 paid-up share, in addition to the interim dividend of Rs 12 per share, for the year ended December 31, 1999.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00feb24/busi.htm (1984 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: K R Narayanan is India's new President
		While Narayanan polled the votes of 4,231 members of the electoral college comprising members of Parliament and the state legislative assemblies, Seshan secured the votes of 240 legislators.
		Returning officer S Gopalan told newsmen after the counting that Narayanan received the highest number of valid votes polled in any Presidential election in terms of value.
		Narayanan is expected to assume his new assignment the next day.
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/jul/17pres.htm (436 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		Narayanan who endeared himself to the citizens of India by his honesty, personal as well as professional integrity in his long and eventful public life will always be remembered as one of the best First Citizen.
		He was known for breaking out of the ceremonial mode and don the role of an proactive President of the Republic of India.
	www.dalits.org /condolancetoKRN.htm (581 words)

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