THE SEVEN RUPEES
THE SEVEN RUPEES My Father, a highly decorated Army Veteran, is a founding member of the Armed Forces Veterans Association at Chennai. The members keep exchanging mails of relevance. One such mail titled “The Seven Rupees” caught my attention. It highlights the need to be a PERSON OF VALUE that is so important in today’s context. We have much to learn from the simplicity and honesty of our Nobel Laureate Scientist Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar. The Nobel Laureate Prof C.V. Raman after retirement wished to open a Research Institute in Bangalore. So he gave an advertisement in the newspapers for recruiting three physicists. Lots of eager Scientists applied thinking that even if they were not selected, they would at least get an opportunity to meet the Nobel Laureate. In the preliminary selection, five candidates were selected & the final interview was to be taken by Prof. C V Raman himself. Three were selected out of the five. Next day Prof. Raman was taking a wal...