 Radhakrishnan was an alumnus of Government Law College, Ernakulam.Radhakrishnan was born in Varkala, a town around 40 km from Trivandum, the capital of Kerala State in India, as the eldest of four sons of Vasudevan and Dakshayani.His maternal grandfather, Manampur Govindan Asan, was a well known Sanskrit Scholar and contemporary of Sri Narayana Guru, the great social reformer who lived in Kerala during the 19th Century.