About the Author

Hello dear reader, I am so glad to meet you!

Lovely to connect. I’m an avid reader too. I love writing, enjoy traveling, but my best adventures yet, have all been vicariously experienced in totally different places and times described in extraordinary books! Truly has it been said that the hands that wield the quill with spellbinding skill rule the world through the times. Isn’t it pure joy to emerge from an immersive experience so mesmerized, that the present appears vague like some half-remembered dream? I salute all those amazing authors and am ever grateful to every one of them for coloring my life with their vivid imagination. Particularly to them that stayed true to the facts and times in which their characters lived, loved, and triumphed through their frailties with fortitude.

The Yale Chronicles is my first foray into publishing historical fiction. I leaned heavily into unearthing pertinent historical facts, and delved deep into imagining the way of life that might have existed three centuries ago in three different lands, all separated by seemingly uncrossable oceans and unbridgeable cultures. I am astonished to discover that Elihu Yale’s struggles in the 17th century could be the story of any immigrant and entrepreneur of today, engaged in the pursuit of better opportunities for his family in a foreign land, armed with little other than the courage and the will to survive and succeed, no matter what the odds.

It is remarkably reassuring to realize that different as we each are, together we have always been one—our hopes and dreams, our triumphs and tribulations similar—no matter where we were born or when we lived. History may never remember us, or may choose to misinterpret our life very differently through a distorted lens, but the mysterious march of time moves inexorably across chasms of time and space to connect the dots and complete circles at its own pace with inexplicable grace.

I was born in Madras (now Chennai), and little did I know that this was the very town in which Elihu Yale made his enormous fortune, and that a small part of that fabled wealth would one day breathe life into the renowned Yale University in America at a critical juncture, when the fledgling infant college was in the throes of death for want of money. Truth is indeed stranger than Fiction.

My professional education meandered through Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration. Leadership positions in large corporations were more conducive to publication of my technical papers in IEEE, ASME, National Aerospace Labs, etc. However, over the years, I contributed articles to Community Magazines on Balancing Career & Family, Women & Health, Building Careers as Professional Women Engineers in Male-dominated workplaces etc.

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