Varahagiri Venkata Giri, known as V.V. was an Indian political leader and the fourth President of India. Through this article, let us know about former President V. Some things about 'V. Giri'.
V V Giri was born on August 10, 1894 in an ordinary Telugu Brahmin family in Berhampur, Odisha, India. His father, Varahagiri Venkata Jogaiah Pantulu, was a distinguished and prosperous lawyer. Giri completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown.
After that, to study law, V.V. Giri went to University College, Dublin in 1913. In the same year he met Gandhiji, who deeply influenced Giri. After meeting Gandhiji he realized that freedom struggle was more important than law.
In college, Geary joined the Sinn Féin movement which led to his expulsion from Ireland in 1916, preventing him from completing his law degree. The Sinn Féin movement was actually the Irish independence and labor movement. It was the revolutionary ideas of people like De Valera, Collins, Pirie, Desmond Fitzgerald, McNeill and Connolly, whom Giri met personally, that influenced him to participate in such movements in India. After this, V.V. Giri returned to India and started actively participating in the labor movement.
| Name | Varahgiri Venkata Giri |
| Date of Birth | 10 August 1894 |
| Place of Birth | Barhampur, Ganjam District, Orissa |
| Father’s Name | V.V Jogaya Pantlu |
| Mother’s Name | Subhadramma |
| Education | 1/ Khalikot College, Madras University, Chennai 2/ National University of Ireland, Dublin |
| Spouse’s Name | Saraswati Bai |
| Award | 1/1975 – Bharat Ratna Award |
| Death | June 24,1980 |