The author of the book, V. Vasumathi, was born to Smt. Mahalakshmi Sethuram and Dr. K.S. Sethuram on July 2, 1944, as their third child. She got her B.Sc. degree in the year 1960 and B.Ed. in the year 1962. Soon after, she joined a secondary school as a teacher for Science, Maths and English. Her interest in further studies didn’t stop even after she got settled. She holds a Master’s degree in mathematics, which she secured privately in the year 1980. She passed a certificate course in Computer C-language in the year 1990. She got married to Sri. S.T. Venkatadri, a scientist, in the year 1964. Although teaching was her profession, writing is her passion. On the school stage, the dramas played for the annual days would invariably be penned by her. She served for nearly 50 years as a teacher in different schools in Bengaluru, Secunderabad and Dubai. Before retirement in the year 2011, she served as Headmistress of a secondary school in Bengaluru for 21 years.