About the Author Desikachari Raghavan (19xx – 20xx) D. Raghavan was an author, journalist and editor from a very young age He was the Press Attache (1948-1950) for the first and only Governor General of free India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (also known as Rajaji) D. Raghavan has worked as a Magazine Editor, Book Editor, Chief Editor and Head of Publication Departments in a number of public sector organizations in the Ministries of Information and Broadcasting, Agriculture and Education. As Chief Editor and Production Specialist in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (1960-64) and Head of Publication Unit in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (1968-72). He was responsible for editing, printing, promoting and distributing a large number of monographs, textbooks and scholarly works on a variety of disciplines. After retirement, he continued to edit publications of doctoral theses sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, designed the syllabi for graduate and post-graduate courses in book publishing for the University of Delhi and taught the subject at the college of Vocational Studies for years. Later, he designed the Open University Course in Book Publishing for Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and had been Course Director since its inception for a number of years. Subsequently, he was involved in extensively reading and writing on cultural subjects, including Indian & World History and Religion, as well as in writing his own biography.