Shriram, author of The Cheetah and the Snail, Krishna Returns and The Colony of Burrows books for children pursued an International Graduate Diploma in Counselling Skills from 2010 - 2011 at Banjara Academy, Bangalore and is the founder of Intellect Pleasure, an edutainment library and learning centre for children in Bangalore... He has a passion to write poems and stories since schooldays and won the certificate of recognition as the Famous Poet for year 2000 from the Famous Poets Society, Oregon for his poem Virtues, which was also published by the International Library of Poetry in their collection of poems called the Consuming Flame...