Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist, diplomat and politician, described by some as the second most powerful man in India, after his ally, 1st Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru ( ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.
 He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964.
 He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic.
 He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while many Indian children knew him as "Chacha Nehru" (Hindi, lit., "Uncle Nehru").
Cheril Krishna Menon, popularly known as C. K. Menon, is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Behzad Corporation, headquartered in Doha, Qatar, which has presence in many other countries.
 A recipient of the 2006 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, Menon was honored again by the Government of India, in 2009, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
Satya Narayan Gourisaria is an Indian born British company secretary, gandhian and a former secretary of the India League, an Indian independence movement organization founded by V. K. Krishna Menon.
 He was born on 7 May 1929 at Dhanbad, in the Indian state of Bihar but shifted to East Bengal, then in erstwhile East Pakistan to return to India in 1948, a year after the Indian independence.
 He did his college studies at Scottish Church College, Kolkata and migrated to United Kingdom in the 1950s to stay there for 61 years.
 A former company secretary at Douglas Fraser and Sons (London) Limited, Gourisaria has also held the directorship of the now defunct Ashoka Publications.
 During his stay in London, he is known to have assisted in cultural exchanges by hiring cinemas to show Indian films and bringing Indian film personalities to London for shows, a show by Lata Mangeshkar at the Royal Albert Hall in 1974 being a notable one.
 He returned to India in 2013.
 He was honored by the Government of India, in 2000, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
The Sainik Schools are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society under Ministry of Defence.
 They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune and Indian Naval Academy.
 Today there are 25 such schools covering all the states of the country.
The Indian Society of International Law (ISIL) is an institution for the teaching, research and promotion of International Law in India.
 It is located opposite the Supreme Court of India and next to the Indian Law Institute (ILI).
 The ISIL was established in 1959 due to the efforts of V.K. Krishna Menon and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.
Sainik School Kapurthala is one of 24 Sainik Schools across India.
 The school was inaugurated in July 1961 by the then Defence Minister V.K.Krishna Menon, with the objective of preparing boys for entry into National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla.
 Its motto is "Knowledge, Humility and Discipline".
 It is a fully residential school for boys only, providing public school education.
 It has produced more than 1150 officers for the Indian armed forces through National Defence Academy.
 It is the only school among the twenty Sainik Schools which has held the Defence Minister’s trophy continuously for nine years.
Edatata Narayanan (1907–1978) was a famous journalist and a freedom fighter from India.
 He took active part in the freedom struggle through the Congress Socialist Party, a caucus within the Congress Party for activists with socialist leanings.
 He was among those who were disillusioned with the progress of Congress party on socialism and formed a new party, Socialist Party in 1948.
 He however left that party along with Aruna Asaf Ali and they visited Moscow along with Rajani Palme Dutt.
 Both of them joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) before Joseph Stalin's death but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev's disowning of Stalin.
 Edatata Narayanan started a daily newspaper, "Patriot"(1963)° as the Chief Editor and was also associated with a weekly, "Link" in 1958 along with Aruna Asaf Ali.
 The publications became prestigious due to patronage of leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Krishna Menon and Biju Patnaik.
 When Edatata Narayanan wanted to make some editorial changes amidst reported opposition from the editorial staff, he told them in no uncertain terms that he belonged to the school of journalism where the editor's view is final.
 He brought "Patriot" into the spotlight by publishing the income tax returns of top industrialists in it and thus, bringing the information into public domain.
 He pursued a pro-CPI and pro-Left editorial policy - Indira Gandhi, a good friend and later the Prime Minister of India herself was pro-left.
 The publications and the associated publishing house were successful.
 The relationship between him and Aruna Asaf Ali was controversial as they were believed to be living together, despite no formal marriage.
 He wrote a book titled "Praja Socialism: Monopoly's Pawn" on the merger of the Socialist Party with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (founded by Acharya Kripalani).
Major Mian Kifait Ali (July 1902 – 1 December 1994) was a pioneer of the Pakistan movement, his masterpiece book ""Confederacy of India"" published in 1939, under the pen name "A Punjabi" was the first to deal with political, economic and administrative aspects of Pakistan.
 He was amongst the first to respond to the call of Pakistan sounded by Muhammad Iqbal in 1930 (Qutote from Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan), Dr. Khursheed kamal aziz Pakistan's official historian) has described this book as "the most comprehensive and far reaching scheme aimed at furthering and elaborating the idea of Pakistan.
 Waheed uz-Zaman wrote in his book, "Pakistan", Lahore, 1964, P. 168, "The book was taken into consideration by the Muslim league, while preparing the Lahore resolution and the fact the solution proposed in the confederacy of India" differed but little from the proposed by the Muslim League in March 1940.
 The venear of a Confederacy, which was the main theme of his scheme, could anytime be set aside and the remainder would have precisely... Pakistan.
 So scholarly and so cogent was his reasoning that men like Dr.Rajendra Prasad felt compelled to join issues with him in his books, ("Pakistan"(Bombay and Calcutta, September 1940), p 34; see also his book ""India Divided"" page 180-181).
 The book was reviewed in leading newspapers and journals.
 Comparatively more scholarly appraisal was in the "Tarjaman-ul-Quran" of Maulana Abul Ala Maududi.
 According to Mian Kifait Ali "The idea was suggested to me by the late Choudhary Rahmat Ali's writings and I developmed it to an extent to which no one had done earlier (Letter to Dr. K.K, September 5, 1968)".
 Ali also stated that originally it was proposed to publish the book under the title of "Pakistan" a typed manuscript which bore this page title was sent to the press.
 Soon after he received a telegraphic message from the Muhammad Ali Jinnah that book should not appear under the pen name of "Pakistan".
 It was to comply with the Quaid's directive he prepared a federal scheme and was incorporated in the introduction of the book.
 Thus the book was titled as "Confederacy of India".
 (Nation article, 23 December 1994 by Sarfraz Hussain Mirza, ""Confederacy of India by A Punjabi"", also in Daily Times, Cam Diary, ""Pak history in Leichester"", and article by V.P Bhatia ""'Jinnah was against the name 'Pakistan' at First"".
 It was in recognition of this work of Mian Kifait Ali that he was invited to work on the committee presided over by Sir Abdullah Haroon set up in February 1940 to examine the various schemes of constitutional reforms for India and to see whether a consolidated scheme can finally be framed.
 His book has been referred to as the most comprehensive schemes at demystifying and detailing the ideas regarding the inception of Pakistan, quite a lot has been written about him and his work.
 Mian Kifait Ali has done "pioneering work in the evolution of Muslim political thoughts and has suffered the hardship of a pioneer… when an objective appraisal of Muslim political movement is made by the historian.
 He will find an honourable place among the pioneers and selfless workers in this great field of Muslim reconstruction (Quoted by Governor Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani).
 Famous independence-era personalities such as Abul Ala Maududi, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, and Sardar V. Patel took issue with him.
 He responded in several pamphlets.
L. M. Singhvi (9 November 1931 – 6 October 2007) was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat.
 He was, after V. K. Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97) He was conferred Padma Bhushan in 1998.

Question: When was the  Prime Minister of India after which V. K. Krishna Menon was regarded as the second most powerful man in India born?  
Answer: 14 November 1889