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Sri K R Krishnaswami After a Brilliant Academic Career finishing with a professional Engineering course at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. K R Krishnaswami Proceeded to Hamburg ( In the then West German)having been selected by the Ministry of scientific research and Cultural Affairs at Nehru Scholar through their All India search for specialization in the field of Petroleum refining. On returning to India he was invited to join the CSIR pool as an UPSC Grade I Officer and placed at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was then picked up by the English company ,Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI India) from where he retired as a Senior Sales Manager. Always interested in the religious and spiritual field, he applied himself seriously in the last 2‐3 decades, absorbing religious and literature /training himself in 4000 Divya Prabhandam and Yagurveda ( Finishing with samhitas) /Attending Kalakshepam on Upanishads and Divya Prabhandam. Simultaneously he participated in programmes of recitation of Divya Prabhandam and Vedas largely in Temples. This training has enabled him to look at Srivaishnava subjects from both the angles~ the purport emanating from shruthis as also of Sri Sukthis of Azhwars. Setting up a publication facility in 2000,he has published almost two dozens books~ besides his own titles in English, he has also brought out religious books written by famous authors in Kannada.Outsi9de this he spear headed a venture to translate Divya Prabhandam into Kannada enlisting the help of a well known author in the field , and brought out 6 books accounting for 1500 songs out of total 4000. He has in the last one and a half decades , undertaken the work of improving/renovating/restoring the past glory of some temples in A.P./T.N/Karnataka. The list of Books is given below:
