About Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan

Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan is a student of yoga and classical music besides ancient/modern writings of the East and the West. He had served in the Indian Revenue Service before resigning in 1987 after about 12 years service while serving as Deputy Collector of Customs and Central Excise.

On the subject of spirituality, yoga, meditation and personality development, he is the author of about 400 articles articles, which had appeared (almost every Monday) in the ‘Cosmic Uplink’ (previously entitled, ‘Spiritual Quotient’) column of ‘Economic Times’ (commencing from May 2005 and concluding in March 2013). He had also written more than 100 articles in ‘The Hindu’ on different topics- mainly analysing critically the laws and procedures in the Customs and Central Excise, suggesting also solutions for the widespread complexities and corruption in these departments of the government. He has also written articles for 'Indian Express'

Mr. Vijayaraghavan has also lectured for various institutes, besides conducting courses on yoga, relaxation, stress management etc. He resides at 1C, ‘Ramaniam Krithika’; 16, Tirumurugan Street, Kalakshetra Colony, Chennai 600090[Phones: 24913444, 24464535, 9884875691]. His e-mail id is: kvyoga@gmail.com

Articles of Mr. Vijayaraghavan can be viewed in the Economic Times epaper. After clicking on the link- http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=ETM&showST=true&login=default&pub=ET&Enter=true&Skin=ETNEW and on selecting any particular date for Economic Times Delhi edition (Mr. Vijayaraghavan's articles usually appear on Mondays), the 'Cosmic Uplink' page can be selected by clicking on the 'Editorial' link on the right column.

As an illustration
1) To view the article on March 7, 2011 ("Doing" and "Being"), first click on the link- http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=ETM&showST=true&login=default&pub=ET&Enter=true&Skin=ETNEW. Go to the date column and select the date as March 7, 2011, and select Economic Times Delhi edition. Then click on 'Editorial' in the right column. You should be able to find the 'Cosmic Uplink' column in this page.

2)To view the article on August 15, 2011 (What is 'Truth'?), first click on the link- http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=ETM&showST=true&login=default&pub=ET&Enter=true&Skin=ETNEW. Go to the date column and select the date as August 15, 2011, and select Economic Times Delhi edition. Then click on 'Editorial' in the right column. You should be able to find the 'Cosmic Uplink' column in this page.

3) To view the article on October 25, 2010 (Established always in your true self), first click on the link- http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=ETM&showST=true&login=default&pub=ET&Enter=true&Skin=ETNEW. Go to the date column and select the date as October 25, 2010 and select Economic Times Delhi edition. Then click on 'Editorial' in the right column. You should be able to find the 'Cosmic Uplink' column in this page.

Below posts contain some samples of Mr. Vijayaraghavan's articles.

Copies of any particular articles could be obtained by contacting Mr. Vijayaraghavan at kvyoga@gmail.com