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Kamaraj was popularly known as Kala Gandhi. He was considered to be having all the qualities of Gandhi. He was not fortunate enough to have a formal education or a rich ancestry or social background. Still he was adulated and had carved a name for himself in the pages of history. He was a man of his own making. It is a great wonder that a simple man like him had ascended to the pinnacle of glory and prominence. This phenomenon is a mystery to many. In India and many parts of the world democracy had catapulted many ordinary men who had sincerity, hard work and talents to come to the forefront in life. Kamaraj had started his life in dire circumstances. He had dedicated himself fully to the cause of national freedom movement. In 1920, at the young age of 16, he registered himself as member of the Congress Party. In the beginning he worked as a grass root level worker of the Party. He worked in the party with zeal and enthusiasm. He became adept in arranging political meetings addressed by popular party leaders. He used to welcome them and collected funds for the meetings. The hundi which Congress men carried to collect funds was called Gandhi hundi. Kamaraj used to carry the hundi and collected funds from the merchants and public in the area.

Department of Applied Chemistry, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore-641 013 Manuscript received 27 May 2985, revised 29 June 1987, accepted 10 July 1987 Pentavalent vanadium-incorporated perovskite oxides have been prepared, charac­terised and used as catalysts in the oxidation of methanol. The relative contributions of the crystal structure to the catalytic activity have also been assessed through a study of vanadium-incorporated rutile catalyst and V2O5-anatase mixture. Further, an attempt has been made to explain the catalytic activities and selectivities on the basis of bond polarity and oxidation state of vanadium. Perovskites (ABO3) containing Vv in the B site were found to be quite stable.

Department of Chemistry. Government College of Technology, Counbatore-641 013 Manuscript received 18 September 1984, accepted 27 April 1985 A New Method for the Preparation of Strontium Titanate and Strontium Hypovanadate.