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structure. A few decades later it would be gifted to the Andhra University to be used as the administrative building, when PVG Raju went on a donation spree in the 1960s. Even in this placid life, the hints and concerns of the larger world found their way in. In 1930, the Civil Disobedience movement had rocked the country. Astutely branded as %u2018the Salt March%u2019 it had made Gandhi even more famous throughout the world. In 1933, while travelling, Gandhiji had stayed over at the No. 5 Bungalow, one of the residences of the royal family in Vizianagaram. The family harboured ardent nationalist feelings. Being in close proximity to these titanic figures of history would have doubtless been an electric sensation %u2013 a feeling that the fates of entire nations could depend on the actions of the few. PVG Raju left St. Aloysius School in 1939, after spending six formative years there. As his younger brother Vishy entered Bishop Cotton, he was enrolled into Central College in Bangalore in the year 1940. He studied there until he completed his intermediate in the year 1942. Even at that early age, it was evident that he had an extraordinary mind. %u201cDr. Radhakrishnan has had an effect upon my life, upon my academic career, upon my thought process%u201d he would say. In spite of a lifelong interest in science, PVG Raju took up the subjects of logic and history at Central College. He recorded his interest and his reasoning in his own words:%u201cFrom my youth onwards, I have idealised the philosopher%u2026My decision to take up humanities, that is Logic and History, in the intermediate, instead of Physics and Chemistry, was based on the desire to study philosophy in my 62