Prof. Neelakanta Radhakrishnan is one of the most eloquent and expressive Gandhian Scholars and activists of our times. Writing about his contributions to world peace and global spread of nonviolence is not an easy task, for his contributions as a prolific writer, philosopher, artist and a wide range of his interests and involvement in training in nonviolent are varied and complex. During the past 45 years of his active public life, in addition to being a well-known member of the faculty of English in Gandhigram University, Tamil Nadu.

He has been ardently involved in everything of national and international importance. Ever since his joining Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi 1989, he devoted his attention fully to the propagation of Gandhian ideals for peace and international understanding

He is perhaps, the first Gandhian Scholar who designed serious and imaginative steps to take Gandhi to the Universities and inspire the Indian youth to go to villages to bring about a qualitative change in village life. His books, articles and even his letters evince much interest among the youth Very few Gandhian Scholars have perhaps penetrated deeper into the significance of Gandhiji’s experiment in relation to the contemporary sociopolitical, educational, economic and cultural problems in order to make the world a better place where people belonging to different castes, creed, ethnicity and nationalities happily coexist. He made a series of experiments with whatever innovations he made on Gandhian creative activities. Along with the deepening of his understanding of Gandhian culture, Dr. Radhakrishnan’s ideas and feelings, his relationship with people and even his language have been bound to undergo great change. The fact that even to the same problem he was seen reacting differently at different periods of his life invariably manifest his development. His emotion attained depth and range. So, only a proper historical study alone can reveal the stages of his being and becoming, his personal and social milieu and the part they played in shaping his mind and personality.

The multifarious roles he played - as a student activist, as story teller, playwright, actor, journalist, editor, academician, Gandhian philosopher etc. would make the writing of a total biography difficult.