born on December 18, 1932, has been a herbalist for more than sixty years.
He is herbal drug research consultant to a major herbal pharmaceutical company for the last twenty-two years.
As founder President and Director of the Society for New Age Herbals, which started functioning as a centre in 1990 in Delhi, he sought the cooperation and participation of physicians of modern as well as traditional medicines, pharmacologists and scientists to modify, restructure and reassess the age-old herbal formulations in the context of ongoing experimental and clinical research, and to promote evidence-based herbal medicine in India. 
His reference works are the outcome of in-depth study and analysis of classical as well as modern herbal treatises. They have secured a prominent place in more than 500 prestigious universities, teaching institutions and libraries in the USA, Canada, Holland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China and Singapore.