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S K Venkatrangiengar
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S. K. Venkatranga Iyengar (1900-1989) was an Indian lawyer. Biography Venkatrangiengar took his BA degree at the University of Mysore and his law degree at the University of Mumbai. He was selected for the Indian Civil Service but did not go for the interview in the UK and so was offered an administrative posting in the princely state of Baroda, but he opted for a legal practice in the Mysore High Court so that he could stay in Bangalore. He was associated with the Indian Freedom movement chauffeured Gandhi in his visit to Karnataka cities. He turned down an offer for elevation to judgeship in Mysore High Court and subsequently took up constitutional matters in the Supreme Court of India. He fought many "writ of mandamus" cases to get justice for public servants and admission to students who were denied their rights due to reservation policy after independence. He was a member of the Constituent assembly for Mysore state. He was a member of the Bangalore city corporation with his maternal uncle and grandfather. He was responsible for getting the Hebbar Srivaishnava Sabha their premises in Gandhinagar in the early thirties. He fought for resolving the disputes in the Melkote shrine between Thenkalai and Vadakalai priests and was a devout worshipper at Biligirirangaswamy Temple in Biligirirangan Hills and Venugopala Krishna in Malleswaram temple. He and his wife divorced after 61 years of marriage in 1981. 
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