India, Jan. 30 -- India's controversial Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon was recently in the news, courtesy a well-researched book, which did not elaborate enough on the implications for the country on account of having a wrong person at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Menon was one of the strangest characters, who appeared on the political scene after independence. PK Banerjee, the Indian charge d'affaires in Beijing in 1962, who often encountered the haughty politician, wrote in his memoir: "Krishna Menon's appearance in the Indian political arena was as sudden as it was unexpected... he had his education and was enrolled as a Barrister. He hardly had any legal practice .[but] became a protege of Palme Dutt, a lawyer and founder...