About the Author.......
Lakshmanan Kasinathan a.k.a “Laks” is a retired Industrial Engineer since 2014. He belongs to a very popular House, “Chathirathar House” (His forefathers constructed Choultries (Free Inn) from Varanasi to Rameswaram in British ruled days). His native place is Devakottai - a small Town in Tamilnadu. He is residing in Trichy. Both these two places are more than 2000 years old and have seen different religions, communities, rules, histories etc.
He studied Industrial Engineering at one of the prestigious institutes of India, Regional Engineering College, Trichy (Now known as NIT), India. On the need basis, he studied a certificate course on Homeopathy for family life. He took a Diploma in Advanced Management from (west) Germany for working life. He has attended a number of Seminars, workshops, Courses etc – He has also organized them.
His experience is of two parts. First part is of 21 years in India and in Manufacturing Industries only- You name an industry of the period (1978 to 1999), most likely, He would have worked in that Industry either as an employee or a consultant. He was an expert faculty to Madras Productivity Council. He has been then an active Member professionally in Indian Institute of Engineers, Indian Institute of Industrial Engineers, Foundry Men, Management Associations and Computer Society of India. He has published many Technical and non-technical papers from his college days (IV year onwards) in the Professional Journals, Company in-house Magazines, Community Newsletters etc.. He has presented papers in seminars, workshops too.
His second part of the Working Experience is for 15 years making the total 36 years. In the second Part, He worked in UAE and Saudi Arabia. The experience is mainly in Petrochemical Projects in the capacity of Costing, Planning, Project, and Operations Engineer or Manager. It was totally a different experience with the multi-ethnic group of people, multi-languages, multi-currency, multi-national companies, multi-national cuisines, and what not.. all are of multi-specialties.
After retirement, He started writing books. He published his first book - a Tamil Poetry Book "பாடல் ஏன் தெரியுமா?" meaning "why is the song for?". Then he translated an authentic Tamil Book on the Great Tamil Emperor Rajendra Sozhan into English by the title "Sozhapuram that won the Gangai". He has been writing in Blogs, and Web Sites. On the advice and encouragement given by the readers of the Blog, and friends, He wrote this Book, "A Time-Tested Guide for Happiness" that is now in your hands
