Sankara Menon \"Purushothaman\" : Birth Centenary 1907-2007

Contents: 1. Message/Justic S. Mohan. 2. Foreword : a rare hero/V.R. Lakshminarayanan. 3. Songs on Sankara Menon/S. Rajaram. 4. Guru Vandanam/R. Sivakami. 5. Amararukku Oru Anjali/Lakshmi Krishnamurthy. 6. Tribute/G.S. Arundale. 7. George Sydney Arundale as I knew him/K. Sankara Menon. 8. The child/K. Sankara Menon. 9. The teacher/K. Sankara Menon. 10. An epitome of Indian culture/Kausalya Santhanam. 11. Sankara Menon: a stalwart in the history of Kalakshetra/N. Mahalingam. 12. Sankara Menon: the man and his image/S.V. Chittbabu. 13. An illustrious son of India/M. Krishnaswami. 14. A man of integrity/Krishnamoorthy Srinivas. 15. Philosophy with a spoonful of sugar/Shakuntala Ramani. 16. A profound scholar/N.S. Jagannathan. 17. An appraisal between two generations/N.C. Gopalaswami. 18. The man who shaped the founders dreams/L. Ramanathan. 19. Sankara Menon: an erudite scholar/S. Srivatsan. 20. A man for all seasons/Bhaskar Ghose. 21. The ideal student and service/Annie Besant. 22. Down memory lane/Narayani Chatterjee. 23. From the heart/Indu Jayanthi Varma. 24. A tribute/P. Krishna. 25. Snakara Menon sir as I knew him/Sujata Upadhyay. 26. Tribute/T.V. Viswanatha Aiyar. 27. Our principal/G. Swaminathan. 28. My recollections of Sankara Menon/K. Rajasekar. 29. Mentor and guide/Sarasvati Nityananda. 30. Our beloved guru/Alagappa Alagappan. 31. Sankara Menon: my most venerable guru/Gouri Bai Menon. 32. A friend, philosopher and guide/Scout Venkataraman. 33. Sankara Menon: the charismatic teacher/Meenakshi Sankar Rao. 34. A unique person/P.K. Rajeswari. 35. A reminiscent tribute/Abhimanyu Buch. 36. An unforgettable character/R. Sivakami. 37. Reminiscences/A.N. Jagannatha Rao. 38. A true Guru/N.V. Natarajan. 39. Sankara Menon: the gentle giant/N. Kumar Das. 40. He made dreams come true/K.V.S. Krishna. 41. Memories of a child/K.R.N. Menon. 42. A centenary tribute to Sankara Menon/D..N. Bezboruah. 43. Tribute/Rukmini Devi. 44. A man of two worlds/K.P.S. Menon. 45. Reply to felicitations/K. Sankara Menon. 46. Noble example of dedicated work/M. Ranganatha Sastri. 47. The lover of children/Kathleen Boag. 48. The man with a mission/S. Krishnaratnam. 49. A letter/Rajkumar P.V. Gajapathy Raju. 50. My preceptor/S. Sarada. 51. Sankara Menon: my revered guru/S. Rajaram. 52. An affectionate gentleman/Sarada Hoffman. 53. Sir/G. Sundari. 54. A man of great caliber/N.S. Jayalakshmi. 55. Sankara Menon: my life maker/S.R. Janakiraman. 56. A father figure to me/Pushpa Shankar. 57. A great person/D. Pasupathi. 58. A man of high values/Adyar K. Lakshman. 59. A very special person/Vasantha Vedam. 60. A beloved personality/S. Sundaravalli. 61. Sankara Menon: the good Samaritan/C.V. Chandrasekhar. 62. Sankara Menon: a silent architect/Girija Khanna. 63. Sankara Menon: a role model/V.P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan. 64. Main pillar of Kalakshetra/C.K. Balagopalan. 65. A connoisseur of the arts/S. Ravi and Rama Ravi. 66. Sankara Menon sir as I remember him/Thangamani Nagarajan. 67. Sankara Menon: the humanist/A. Janardhanan. 68. A scholar and a gentleman/B. Seetharama Sharma. 69. My guiding star/Kala Ramesh Rao. 70. Five generations and six decades of a warm association/Ambika Buch. 71. My mentor for Shanti/Indira P.P. Bora. 72. Tribute to a Karma yogi/M.V. Narasimhachari. 73. The gentle man/Gowri Ramnarayan. 74. An extraordinary scholar/Preetha Reddy. 75. Acknowledgements/G. Sundari. Members of the Sankara Menon Birth Centenary Committee. 

"Sankara Menon was the first Headmaster and then Principal of the Besant Theosophical High School. Later on, he was the Joint Director of Kalakshetra, helping Rukmini Devi in all her educational work. On her passing away in 1986, he succeeded her as Director of Kalakshetra. He was respected and loved by all those who were fortunate to know him. He was goodness personified which prevailed in his presence. Sankara Menon educated students by his example. His vast knowledge of Eastern and Western philosophies, Indian Fine Arts, Sanskrit, Malayalam and English literature, made one wonder how a person could embody such wisdom.

Peria Sarada\'s grandmother Smt. Lakshmi Ammal used to welcome Sankara Menon calling him Purushothaman whenever he visited their house to study the Upanishads with her husband Pandit S. Subramania Sastri. To her, he was the example of a noble human being.

Hence the title of this book."