VR Krishna Iyer is an eminent jurist, administrator, orator, and music lover. He has left his marks in the cultural, social and political arena of India. His verdicts as a judge remain golden in the Indian law history. He has already retired from the judicial services, but in the minds of the people, he remains a judge.

As a minister in the first communist ministry in India, Krishna Iyer was assigned the departments of Home, Law, Jail, Electricity, Irrigation, and Social Welfare.

Author of several articles connected with law and justice, his streams of thought are left leaning.

After retiring from Supreme Court as judge, he is active among the masses with his social and political reformation movements.

BIRTH AND EDUCATION

He was born in the Palakkad district of Kerala on 15th November 1915 as the son of the reputed advocate VV Ramaiyer.

After schooling, VR Krishna Iyer took BA Degree from Annamalai University in Tamilnadu. Then he studied at Madras Law College for BL. In 1938, he enrolled as an advocate and joined Ernakulam High Court for practice.