Pushing 86, this book Nostalgia and Nightmares is the 9th after Sugarcane And Its Bounty, Sugar- Sweet, Simple..., Humour AND Human Values, With Malice Towards None And Love To All, There Is Romance In Rambling, A Medley Of Meandering Thoughts, Pandemic Prattles, (C) O V I D - Lockdown Ramblings. A graduate of Madras University, career wise has been in the sugar industry for well over forty years. Keen shuttle badminton player and won the Madras State Veterans Trophy. In Rotary he is a Paul Harris Fellow and led a group study to California. He was awarded the Karnataka Shree Puraskar by The Kannada Sahitya Academy. He has instituted scholarships in memory of his father at St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kerala and another in memory of his driver, Basheer, to benefit school children in Lalgudi. Blessed with a happy and supportive family comprising wife, son and daughter, daughter in law and two grandchildren. Settled in Bengaluru for a decade now.