A computer engineer from Bengaluru, married to an IIT-IIM alumnus and having travelled and lived around the world with him – from Delhi and Mumbai to New York, London and Orlando – the last thing Roopa Pai would have imagined in her youth was becoming an authority on the Bhagavad Gita, Vedas and Upanishads, and writing books about them.
But that indeed is where life has led her, and as usually happens when you walk with gods, there is a dollop of divine support along the way. “I grew up reading Enid Blyton, and imagined that only British children had a good childhood and my own – with family picnics that featured lemon rice instead of scones – was somehow sucky,” laughs the 48-year-old Bengaluru-based children’s books author.
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The Computer Engineer Who Simplified the Gita and Vedas for Kids and Seekers