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that was sponsored by UNDP. All these projects were carried out through M/S Strabus software
solutions. During this period, he discovered his creative and intellectual skills; he however, felt
that his interpersonal skills were wanted or lacking. These plagued him for much of his life.
He relocated from Hyderabad to Bangalore in February 2004, and later moved to the field of
Governance, Risk and Compliance. He joined IBM in 2005 in Bangalore where he worked for six
years till 2011 as the Business controls head of India GBS-GD division. He then has been working
as a freelance consultant in the field of Governance, risk and compliance ever since serving major
clients such as the Tata group, Mahindra Group, NEC Corporation, Verizon, and British American
tobacco. He completed his Post Graduate diploma in Business Administration from Indian
Institute of Commerce and Trade, Lucknow, his Masters of Commerce from GITAM University in
Visakhapatnam, and his Masters in Anthropology from Indira Gandhi National Open University,
New Delhi. He also completed several certifications in the field of governance, risk, and
compliance. He credits his exposure to multiple ideologies in childhood and the exposure to
different types of people, and his exposure to different professions later on in life for his ability to
think independently, and think through all concepts from scratch. He has been active in research
since 2005, (passively or in a less accomplished form, since around the year 1990) and has
contributed extensively to science including the social sciences. He attributes the start of his
creative period to the 14
th
of November 2005, when he actively started researching the Aryan
problem. He contacted David Frawley, Michael Witzel, and Steve Farmer on this day, asking for
inputs. He later corresponded briefly with Subash Kak, Nicholas Kazanas, Edwin Bryant, SP
Gupta, and others. His solution for the Aryan problem was published by the ICFAI journal in two
parts, between 2008 and 2010, and many more publications followed.
He married Tara Mandavilli (nee Tara Janapamala) in 1996 who was the daughter of a senior
Indian Airlines Manager. (Divorced in 2015). She worked as a Senior Manager in companies like
IBM, HSBC, and JP Morgan. His wife Tara was talented, and an exceptional homemaker.
However, there were fundamental differences in mind-orientation between the two which marred
the relationship. They have a son Yugesh Mandavilli who completed his masters in Data science
from Royal Holloway University in the United Kingdom in 2024, and works in London as a data
scientist. Over the years, he developed a very close relationship with his son, and has guided him
intellectually. After his divorce, he found the time to pursue his passions extensively, and
relocated to Puttaparthi, though not for religious or spiritual reasons. Even though he suffered
financially due to his divorce, he bounced back quickly and easily, and rebuilt his life from scratch
to enter a highly productive period of his life. This is in spite of his health issues; since at least
2016, he has been highly diabetic. Although he felt he was a failure early on in his life, he made
up for lost time, discovered his true passions and his calling, and became a publisher of over a
hundred research papers, thereby realizing his childhood dreams of becoming a scientist. He also
supported his family single-handedly for many years, while swiveling from an unrelated field of
study, to one that interested him highly and passionately.
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