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I am M.S.Parashivamurthy, a piscean. Aged 66 years(born on 11th March 1949).

My grandfather was an artist. When I was a small boy, I used to sit and watch him do oilpaintings on canvas. I wanted to become an artist like him. Since, I was not encouraged to go to any art school, drawing for me remained as hobby only.

I love Music. I have written some poems in Kannada. I Play Chess with my computer. I love seeing movies filled with love and emotions with lot of tears. I am an introvert and a dreamer.

I joined the engineering course at NIE, Mysore in 1966 and discontinued it after a year as I was not interested. Then I ran away to Bombay in search of job in the film industry. I worked as an assistant to the Art Director at Mehboob studios for some time. I could not stay for longer there as I was not strong enough to face the uncertainty. I came back and did my degree in Psychology at Maharaja's college, Mysore. I worked in forest department for three years and then I got a job in Indian Bank, Bangalore. After working for 28 years in the Bank in varous capacities from clerk to branch manager at various places, I took voluntary retirement. Now I am happily spending my time doing things like watching TV, reading books, spending time on my personal computer and doing painting and drawing.

In the year 2010, I wrote my first book, an autobiography in kannada called 'gere daatida mele' published by Roopa prakaashana, Mysore which became quiet popular in literary circle. The very next year I wrote one more book called 'singapurada magala manege', a travelogue.

She is Irene, my christian wife, whom I met when I was just 18 years old. We fell in love with each other and after three years of courtship, we ran away from our respective houses to live together against to the wishes of our parents and relatives. We got married afterwards, struggled through life for quiet some time and raised two beautiful and wonderfull daughters. It is a successful and happy married life of 43 years.

He is Siddharth, son of my younger daughter Soumya and Chirag. He is as soft natured cute boy like his pappa. He is four and half year old and is the youngest member of our family. He is more clever for his age as his cousins. He is cute and fun loving kid. He calls his ajji as bajji and me- thatha thindi potha.

Preethi, is my eldest daughter, an engineering graduate from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. Before her marriage, she has worked in State Bank of Mysore and in a software company in Bangalore. After marriage, she lived with her family in Singapore for 2 years and in Switzerland for one year and then they returned to India and at present they have settled down in Bangalore with her husband Prabhu, a software engineer, daughter Prithvi and son Pratham.

Prabhu , my daughter Preethis's husband. He is a computer engineer working at presnt in Bangalore. He is very loving, caring and a wonderful person.

After the arrival of Prithvi, my granddaughter, into our family in November 2004, our life has changed dramatically. She braught abundant joy to us and made us to rediscover the wonderful, sweet and loving world.

 Pratham is the younger brother of Prithvi . He was born on 26th January 2007. He is cute and naughty and keeps us always on our toes. His giggle is as delightful as his sister's is. He is in first standard now.

Soumya, is my my younger daughter, a post-graduate in Microbiology from Mysore University. Untill she got married in the year 2008, she was working in Oracle India at Bangalore. She is living with her husband Chirag and son Siddharth at Bangalore at present.

Chirag, my younger daughter Soumya's husband. He is an engineeering graduate from IIT, Bombay. He is working as software engineer at Bangalore at present. He is a down-to-earth person with divine qualities.