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Kamesh Ramakrishna Aiyer was raised in Mumbai. He is a lifelong reader of almost anything. As a child, he wanted to be many things – a scientist, a mathematician, a biologist, a writer, and so on. Science and engineering took first priority, so he graduated with a BTech from IIT/Kanpur, then obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University, and has worked as a scientist and engineer for over 30 years. He still wanted to write, but the inspiration only came when he thought of re-imagining the Mahabharata. This brought into play the extensive reading he had done, but also required further extensive research and study of original sources. The new perspective was grounded in research on the ecological underpinnings of the epic and has been published in two scholarly journals – The Trumpeter (Canadian) and The Indian Journal of Eco-Criticism . Now Amazon’s Kindle has provided the opportunity to publish short excerpts of his writing. "The Making of Bhishma" is the first one, and more will be published in the coming months. The book is available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FGWOR4