Raman used to take care of his servants in "Panchavati". He had the habit of going to the bank on the first working day of every month to withdraw money and would insist on getting sheaves of crisp new currency bills instead of grimy tattered notes, he would come back and pay each employee in the office and the maintenance staff drawing an aesthetic pleasure from handling and handing out fresh—from-the—mint currency notes. **************************** ***************** 
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On 18 April Albert Einstein died in Princeton . When Raman heard the news, he promptly sent for a barber to have his head shaved—a Hindu ritual performed by a man on his father's death.
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On 15 August 1954 Raman was given India's highest honour—the Bharat Ratna. Raman did not go to Delhi to receive the award. He wrote to President Rajendra Prasad on the twentieth that he would not be present because " I am firmly tied down here to enable one of my students to complete his doctorate thesis which the Regulations require him to submit to his University before the end of January. Thus my duty as a teacher has to take precedence over personal affairs'.
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During a conversation with the wife of S.Chandrasekhar Raman told her that he had got his first sliver of Platinum when he smashed his Bharat Ratna medal with a hammer. He had broken it in a rage at the Government for their ill-conceived policies on science.
There is a story of Raman entering his drawing room, picking up a bust of Nehru that stood on the shelf and hurling it on the ground.
Raman was famous for his ready wit. When offered a glass of champagne on one of his travels abroad, Raman purportedly replied, "Sir, you have seen the Raman Effect on Alcohol; please do not try to see the Alcohol Effect on Raman."
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When someone asked Raman why he wore a turban, he said, "Oh !, if I did not wear one, my head will swell. You all praise me so much. So I need a turban to contain my ego."
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