I am a 62-year-old graduate Engineer trained in Power Plant – Electricity Generation – design, construction, operations, and project management. I now live in the City of Salem, in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. I quit my most recent job as Director-Project Management with a Multi-national Company, in December 2014, to start-up a Women’s Apparel Design and Bespoke Tailoring Store called, ‘Mavira Designs’, along with my wife. In-between the ‘lines of design’ I have found the space to pursue my passion for writing.

I’ve worked and lived in the Cities of Neyveli, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Chennai – India; and having travelled – mostly on work – to the USA/Puerto-Rico, Dubai, Thailand, China and London, I has discovered an ‘ever climbing passion’ for writing, to flirt with words, to enthral, to give expression to thoughts and ‘ideas swimming in the mind’.

When embarking on a career, freshly out of College in 1986, I enjoyed the mechanical energy of building a power plant, commissioning steam turbines, learning and polishing my Engineer skills. This laid the foundation for career progression as a power plant engineer. Later, when working up the Corporate Ladder, it flashed upon that inward eye that my most meaningful and fulfilling moments, in addition to the thrill of successful execution, were in anchoring thoughts with words; drafting or researching & writing the ISO 9001: 2008 documents as Management Representative, or drafting a specification, an O&M Manual, or writing that well-researched letter to a Client expounding a theme or clarifying a statement, or to my team – inspiring them to deliver. My best moments have been fondly looking at what I have written and enjoying the pleasure of word craftsmanship.

I now aspire to become a full-time Writer & Essayist, hoping to publish a novel at the soonest, besides grabbing any opportunity that may come my way such as writing daily,  weekly or monthly posts for Newspapers and Magazines or on the internet.