Nobel Laureate Sir Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman was among, the first three recipients (the other two being Chakravarthi Rajagopala Chary and, Drsarvepalli Radhakrishnan) of the title Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in
India in 1954. The then President, Rajendra Prasad, wrote personally to Raman inviting him to be the personal guest in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, when Raman came to Delhi for the award ceremony. Raman wrote a polite letter regretting his inability to attend the investiture ceremony. He had a noble reason. He had to be by the side of his Ph.D. student as the scholar was trying hard to finalize his Ph.D. thesis before the deadline. “Can there be a better award to a teacher than being by the side of a needy student?” seems to be Raman”s message to us all!
1) Name the highest civilian honour in India
2) When was that award conferred on Sir C.V. Raman?
3) Who were the other two recipients of the award, along with Sir C.V. Raman?
4) What was Rajendra Prasad’s offer to Raman?
5) Why didn’t Raman attend the award ceremony?
6) What appears to be Raman’s message, by not attending the ceremony?
7) What is the word used in the passage to mean formal presentation?
8) Find the synonym of the word appears from the passage.
ANSWERS
1) The Bharat Ratna
2) in 1954
3) Chakravarthi Rajagopala Chary and Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
4) an invitation to Raman to be his personal guest in Rashtrapathi Bhavan
5) As Raman wanted to be by the side of his Ph.D student, as the scholar was busy finalising
his PhD thesis
6) “Can there be a better award to a teacher than being by the side of a needy student?”
7) Investiture
8) seems