The author is a postgraduate in science and a diploma holder in Business Management and spent his career in marketing and distribution of chemical fertilisers. He was closely associated with the State and Central Governments of India and has travelled widely in India and abroad. Hailing from a middle-class Hindu family steeped in religiosity and spirituality, he studied after retirement the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Holy Bible, and the Holy Quran, and the commentaries by theologians and scholars. He found the conflicts and riots in the name of religion, meaningless and futile and came out with this book One God Many Names to drive home the truth that God is One, and we are all children of One God. He is 79 years old and lives in Bengaluru with his wife and son.