The author was born in Madras in 1941. He was raised by his grandmother in Coimbatore where he attended Suburban middle school. He moved to Mylapore, Madras in 1952. He did his high schooling there and graduated S.S.L.C from P. S. High School in 1955. He was a member of the Children’s Club in VM street. He moved to Jamshedpur to be with his parents. He joined Kamachha in Banaras for his Intermediate Science in 1956, then graduated from Banaras Engineering college in 1962 as a Mechanical Engineer. He joined as a graduate apprentice in Telco, Jamshedpur in 1963. As a member of the United Club in Northern Town, he read Time, Life, Look and National Geographic magazine with a passion. The politics, history geography and space travel fascinated him and kindled a serious desire to immigrate to USA which he did in August of 1969. He also helped around 20 friends from TELCO and TISCO. In U.S he worked as an Engineer in Nuclear and Fossil Plants. Raised a family and retired in 1999. Came to Madras and built a 12-apartment complex in 2000 in Mylapore. He spent the next 14 years in a Del Webb community, Rancho Resort in Sahuarita, Arizona. He ran the Solo Club there for 10 years. Subsequently moved to a Senior independent community, The Gardens in Pleasanton, California near his son, due to bad health and lives there now. He comes to Madras every year to visit family.