Raju Sundararajan was born in 1957 and led a fairly uneventful life for nearly sixty years. He had a stroke on the palindromic date of the year 2016 and suffered paralysis of his voice muscles and the left side of his body. After about four months of vigourous physiotherapy he resumed his profession as a Chartered Accountant and retired in 2018 after four decades of office-going life. He lives in Chennai, southern India, as part of an extended family of eight members, comprising four generations, with a male and a female in each generation.