Dear Friends...I was born in Calcutta where my father K. S. Narasimhan, a alumni of the government college at Kumbakonam was working in the Ordnance factories hq. My mother hailed from Tirutturaipoondi, in Thanjavur district.
In my teens I studied in Madras (Madras christian college school), Vivekananda, Loyola and Presidency college, before joining HIndu editorial in 1980. Later I joined Indian Express, and then India Today Tamil...Subsequent to that, I made a small serial for DD National, titled Atmadarshan..Since then..about 1997..I wrote in Tamil about 4000 pages on Tamil film music personalities (Thirai Isai Alaigal 4 volumes....first discography of Tamil cinema, biographies of MS, TMS and music composer G. Ramanathan). Though most of the media ignored my efforts -- except for those who used it for personal gain in tv, radio and other programmes - which were rather monumental for single person of modest means to undertake, the Tamil Nadu government recognised my work with a Kalaimamani (2005).
My other works include - Vallalar, Pugaippadangaludan oru punidha vaazhkai payanam, which is the first attempted photographic travelogue combined with a spiritual biography of the saint, and Calcutta, Netru Indru Naalai...a novel like history of the city and Vajpayee Kavidhaigal from Hindi....
I have directed three documentaries, including the latest..Gods and Goddesses of India. I have produced for Superaudio label many alternative music CDs...including the very successful..Chakra Meditation.
Basically, I believe in the spiritual. My parents were spiritually minded, and I had the early association of saints like Gnanananda of Tapovanam, Tirukoilur, and Yogi Ram Surat Kumar...Where does one end an introduction...Well..I sometimes feel that it is centuries since I started on the voyage..down the seashore...the lands adjoining the seas keep changing..but the sea of life, its waves...its sunrises...and its bewitching nights are for ever and ever.......Let us voyage friends beyond the confines of the body and its associations and keep the flag of love flying...