NS Rajan is a retired senior IRS Officer and has been a  permanent resident of Bangalore for a long time now.  His interests are wide. He is an avid reader and a sports lover, particularly cricket, having watched many greats in action from the late 1940s (he has played cricket at a fairly competitive level). He listens to music of all genres, is fascinated by Hindi film music of the ‘golden era’ and has written many essays on composers, lyricists and singers. These essays may be accessed at: https://wordpress.com/posts/ywgh.wordpress.com

Rajan loves to sing and spends some of his time singing on 'Smule', and on his Karaoke system. He likes to write and has contributed articles, short stories and letters to newspapers and magazines, some of which have been published in Silhouette Magazine and LnC.

Rajan is very fond of travelling and learning about new and fascinating places and is a keen observer of all that he sees, hears and observes during his travels. Travel and photography usually always go together and Rajan has been interested in photography from his teens, weaned on a German  'Zeiss Ikon', 'Nettar' camera (with bellows). His abiding love for travel and photography inspired him to write an illustrated book on his trip to the USA, "The Go West Odyssey", including in it a number of pictures taken by him during the trip. He works actively to keep himself engaged in some mental pursuit or the other and takes his daily walks regularly to keep mentally and physically fit at the ripe old age of 87.