About

Here is a classic of the subject becoming the object.
My young associate who is assisting me in this endeavour suggested a piece introducing myself to myself and others.
expectations.
I hail from a laid back town not far from Bangalore, Hosur.Laid back is the wrong word in the present context because it has grown and grown beyond anybody's expectations.
Proximity to the city is one of the reasons. Tamilnadu government was quicker than ours in exploiting this fact.
the corrective measures taken by Ramakrishna Hegde preserved the advantages to some extent.
I studied in board high school , Hosur and one of my classmates was H.Nagarajaiah Setty , since deceased , who became a IAS officer.
Going further back, i may lay claim to another distinction. This was the very school where C.Rajagopalachari, former governor general of India studied.
When i was in eighth standard he walked into our school and our classroom and said the very bench i was sitting on was his too when he was a pupil there.
Proxy glory indeed!
After my sslc i moved on to what was then known as Intermediate college. it is still situate opposite Central college though the name has since been changed.
My Finest move in education was my choice of Maharaja's college, Mysore for my Bachelor of Arts course.
Incidentally it was also the postgraduate centre at that time .
Manasa Gangothri came up later.
When i visited Maharaja's recently the old lecture halls remain as they were.
the academic atmosphere is subdued but that cannot be helped when the focus is on Manasa Gangothri.
The university library where i spent several hours poring over books and magazines which i may not access now whetted my appetite for knowledge.
I was an indifferent student , shy too, and failed in the final examination for a reason you may not appreciate---- to taste failure for the first time.
I was just out of teens then.
A friend who had close relatives among journalists would speak highly of Frank Moraes who was helming the Indian Express then.
Thus was sown the seed for a journalist job within me.
No, I did not join the journalism course there .
Mine was the royal combination, history, economics and politics.
How i wish I had opted for Politics, Sociology and Psychology.
Psychology, then as now, has fascinated me.
A senior wellwisher would hand over his copies of Psychology Today and I benefited a lot from that in my underemployment days.gravida eleifend.

Work

A dare from a close relative spurred me to action and I landed a job in Deccan Herald editorial though at the far end.
That was in 1962 .
From then on to Indian Express where I served for 20 years and opted for voluntary retirement.
a misadventure in business landed me in deep trouble.
help came in the form of a good friend, a non-journalist , who helped restore my professional honour.
I was a columnist for Rajasthan Patrika for over 30 years.
The people there were extremely considerate and many of them figure in my daily prayers.
My spiritual pull was strong. Besides, the newspaper had grown by leaps and bounds. My presence there was no longer necessary , I thought, and withdrew from the scene.
I am past 80 years and nature must have had a purpose in keeping me fit.
so I thought it is time i share my knowledge for whatever it is worth with the ones who came late.
I do not claim to be immersed in knowledge but facts have to be stated.
I am a voracious reader and the aggregate of books i browsed or studied may touch six figures.
Most of them in English.
I have been a student of spirituality for decades now under a competent master .
I did review books of spiritual nature for Deccan Herald when i was on the faculty of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
I was the first coordinator for Kannada journalism course there .

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