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K.N. Rao (Kotamraju Narayana Rao) retired from the Indian Audit and Accounts Service as Director General in November 1990.  He is the second of the four sons of the famous journalist of the pre-independence era. K. Rama Rao, the founder editor of the National Herald and, editor of more than thirty journals in his long journalistic career.  Rao was initiated into astrology by his late mother, K. Saraswani Devi, at the known in two areas, marriage and children and prashna (horary).  Rao was a lecturer in English before joining the government service through an all-India competition in 1957.  He joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service from which he retired as Director General in November 1990.  More interested in games and sports than in astrology in his youth, Rao won brilliancy prizes in chess competitions and two state championships in bridge competitions.  He played ten other games which is why in his astrological writings also there are references to games often.  During his service career, he was the planner, organizer and teacher of three international courses on Audit of Receipts as a joint director once and director twice.  His interaction with foreigners have been both on professional and astrological levels for more than two decades which is why he has, as an astrologer, a large international network of friends.  He went on doing all his fundamental researches in astrology during his service career because of which he went on collecting horoscopes systematically in thousands.  He has in his possession more than 50,000 horoscopes with ten important events of each individual noted with him.  It is perhaps, the largest individual collection of horoscopes any astrologer in the world has.  The strain of doing astrology as a mission, not charging any fee, except on foreign tours almost made him give up astrology many times.  But in December 1981 he was forced out of his shell to participate in a three-day seminar on astrology in Delhi.  After this ground breaking speech, there has been a persistent demand for his astrological articles.  From them onwards he has been sharing with his readers his original researches for which he has won worldwide praise.  Between 1993 and 1995, Rao has visited the USA on five lecture tours.  He was the Chief Guest at the Second Conference of the American Council of Vedic Astrology in 1993.  He was requested to be present in the Third Conference also in 1994 on the opening day because of the crowds he would draw.  His name was advertised till November 1995 also for the Fourth Conference though he had made it clear that he would not be available anymore for the American conferences.  In June 1998 he went to Moscow where he taught astrology through interpreters.  It was a great success as reported by the Russian sponsors part of those reported is produced here.  As a result of his academic approach, he has now more than a thousand students in India and more than two hundred in the USA.  He is the Director of Astrology Courses in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.  The teachers on the teaching faculty of the astrology course in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan have, like him, never charged any fees for teaching which they do in an honorary capacity.

M.S. Mehta is a senior retired officer of the Indian Foreign Service. He has held important diplomatic posts in Middle East, Europe, UK and USA. He has a Masters degree in History, and has specialized in ancient Indian History and Culture, and was the Secretary of the Historical society while in Delhi University. He knows many foreign languages like French, German and Arabic. His quest for spiritualizm started in the Holy Ashram of Swami Muktananda in Fallshurg, New York and in Sri Hanuman Temple of Long Islands, USA being efficiently run by Guru Ma J. Saraswati. In India under the guidance of K.N. Rao, he completed with distinction the prescribed courses in Jyotish and did considerable research in Mundane Astrology. He is the author of book ‘Planets and Foreign Travel’, and has written many articles on Astrology which appear regularly in Journal of Astrology whose technical editor he also is. At present he is senior faculty member of the Institute of Astrology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan which has the distinction of being the largest Institute of Astrology in the world.