Background

Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram was born on 22 September 1943 in Mysore City, then in the Kingdom of Mysore now in Karnataka, India. His ancestors were Vedic Brahmins belonging to the Madhva-Deshastha sect who came to Mysore in 1638, accompanying Shahji Bhonsle (father of the famous warrior Shivaji) when he became the Governor of Karnatak. Rajaram's father Navaratna Srinivasa Rao (1913–2002) was a leading surgeon of his time and his mother was Nanda Devi (1922–1996). Her father Ramohalli Vyasa Rao (1881–1958) was an eminent geologist and industrialist who founded several successful companies and also a scholar of note. The major early influence on Rajaram was his paternal grandfather Navaratna Rama Rao (1877–1960), a renowned administrator and friend and mentor of leading figures like India's Governor General C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), polymath K.M. Munshi, composer Vasudevacharya, and musician M. S. Subbulakshmi– to name a few. Rajaram spent much of his early youth with his grandfather whose personality, associations and scholarship left a profound and lasting influence on him. Like his grandfather, Rajaram too became proficient in several languages gaining recognition and awards as a writer both in English and in his native Kannada at an early age.

Education

Rajaram's early schooling was sporadic because of frequent travel and he was tutored privately at home until the age of ten. He later joined the National High School in Bangalore, and, after finishing school, studied electrical engineering in Mysore and Bangalore.

Career

After graduation in 1965 he joined the Tata Power Company in Bombay (Mumbai) working in the control room of a distribution station. This, followed by a stint in setting up electrical irrigation sets in the rural areas around Poona (now Pune) gave him intimate knowledge of the practical aspects of electrical engineering. His control room experience proved invaluable when he was involved in the computerised automation of the NASA Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston more than a decade later.

Achievements

• Aryan Invasion of India: The Myth and the Truth (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1993)
  
  The politics of history : Aryan invasion theory and the subversion of scholarship (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995)
  
  Secularism : the new mask of fundamentalism : religious subversion of secular affairs (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995)
  
  The Dead Sea scrolls and the crisis of Christianity : an Eastern view of a Western crisis (London : Minerva, 1997)
  
  Gandhi, Khilafat and the national movement : a revisionist view based on neglected sources (Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan, 1999)
  
  Christianity's scramble for India and the failure of the secularist elite (New Delhi : Hindu Writers' Forum, 1999)
  
  From Sarasvati river to the Indus script : a scientific journey into the origins of the Vedic Age
  
  Profiles in deception : Ayodhya and the Dead Sea scrolls (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2000)
  
  Nationalism and distortions in Indian history : causes, consequences and cure (Bangalore : Naimisha Research Foundation, 2000)
  
  Nostradamus and beyond : visions of yuga-sandhi (New Delhi : Rupa, 2002)
  
  "Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, science and politics," (Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006)

Works

• book

  • Designs of Expert Systems on the Personal Computer.

  • Robotics and Expert Eystems, 1985: Proceedings of ROBEXS '85, the First Annual Workshop on Robotics and Expert Systems, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Johnson Space Center, edited by Nova Scoti Rajaram

  • Robotics and Expert Systems, 1987: Proceedings of ROBEXS '87, the Third Annual Workshop on Robotics and Expert Systems, University of Pittsburgh, edited by Nova Scoti Rajaram

  • Artificial intelligence: the Achilles Heel of Manufacturing. Robotics Engineering

  • A knowledge-based approach to programming welding robots (with Eric Sullivan)

  • Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization: A literary and scientific perspective (with David Frawley)

  • The Politics of History: Aryan invasion theory and the subversion of scholarship

  • Profiles in Deception: Ayodhya and the Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Secularism: The new mask of fundamentalism

  • A Hindu View of the World: Essays in the intellectual kshatriya tradition

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Crisis of Christianity: An Eastern View of a Western Crisis

  • The Deciphered Indus Script: Methodology, readings, interpretations (with N. Jha)

  • Stefan Arvidsson, Aryan Idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science

  • Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, science and politics

  • Hidden Horizons: 10,000 years of Indian culture (with David Frawley)

Membership

• Folks Magazine's Editorial Board , India

Interests

• Science, mathematics, politics

Connections

Father:

Navaratna Srinivasa Rao

Navaratna Srinivasa Rao (1913–2002) was a leading surgeon of his time.

Mother:

Nanda Devi