About Mr S Rajaratnam-Academic

Raffle Institution

Mr S Rajaratnam attended the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus for six months and was transferred to St Paul's, a boys' school. He continued his education in the prestigious Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur and then in Raffles Institution, Singapore. In 1937, He went to King's College, London, to pursue a law degree. At there, he received his political awakening, became fashionably anti-imperial, anti-British, joined the socialist Left Book Club and became a Marxist. Mr S Rajaratnam was unable to complete University due to World War Two.