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Here's a happy news!!!
A good friend and a colleague of me, Karthik, has now become the co-author on this blog alongside me... Here's wishing him a "Good Luck and Happy Quizzing"..
Rock On Karthik!!!

This is the campus of the University of Kerala. This was setup during the year 1937. This was previously known as the University of Travancore. The complete chronicled history of the University has released recently as it celebrates its Platinum Jubilee this year. According to this history, the University tried to get X, a Nobel Prize winner for its Vice Chancellor. They offered X a monthly salary of Rupees 6000. But X politely declined the offer.

According to Sreedhara Menon, who chronicled the history, getting X as Vice Chancellor was the idea of the then Diwan, CP Ramaswamy Aiyar. The Diwan had thought that if X headed the University, the status of the University would elevate. But the copy of the original letter of correspondence is yet to be found.

The question is simple. Identify X.