Career
Regret Iyer is known to have collected more than 375 regret slips or rejection slips from various magazines and publicised himself as collector of regret slips. He became so infamous as regret slip collector that his real name of Satyanarayana is overshadowed by his acquired name, Regret Iyer. His first regret slip was in 1964 for an article on Bijapur.
His collection of 375 regret slips is recorded in Limca Book of Records.
He also established Regret Iyer Publications and Productions, to encourage younger talents.
