For example, he traveled to Colombo, Sri Lanka for completion of Secondary Cambridge and there he developed high level of acclimatization to the new socio-political environment. He mingled well with his co-students of different nations and cultures and continued his incessant journey of education. It was learnt that he taught all the aspects of his education to poor students in India. This shows his admiration for the country and fellow Indians. In other words, he has shown dedication not only in learning knowledge and education but also in service to the humanity which is noteworthy. This quality of him also reminds us of basic essence of education as propounded by Swami Vivekananda that education is not mere job creating machine, but is should become instrument of man making and character building with human …show more content…
This has ignited his feeling towards freedom fight against the British rule because he understood that the poverty eradication measures were not implemented by the British sincerely and wholeheartedly. He worked with various other national freedom fighters and took the freedom struggle movement with a big leap. He contributed immensely for the benefit of poor people of India by his dedicated service to crop improvement programme in general and cotton improvement in particular. It is really surprising to note that Shri Pingali Venkaiah contributed immensely for the field of agriculture seeing his original background. But he proved all others wrong by excelling in this area as he developed the art of impeccable learning and knowledge at every stage of his life. He was instrumental in development of new cotton varieties because of which several farmers of India got benefited tremendously and he was given the title of "Patti Venkaiah". For this outstanding contribution, he was recognized by the British government with the membership of Royal Society. This only illustrates that Bharat Ratna Shri Pingali Venkaiah has shown the world that learning and knowledge has no limits and one can excel in any field if has attitude and dedication. It is really unfortunate to note that he died of poverty and we should pay tribute to him by taking