More interested in games and sports than in astrology in his youth, Rao won brilliancy prizes in chess competitions and two state championships in bridge competitions. He joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service from which he retired as Director General in November 1990.
Rao was a lecturer in English literature before joining the government service through an all-India competition in 1957.
He regards her as the best astrologer he has known in two areas: marriage and children and prashna (horary). Sarasvani Devi, at the age of twelve in 1943. Rao was initiated into astrology by his late mother, K. Rama Rao, the founder-editor of the National Herald and editor of more than thirty journals in his long journalistic career.
He is the second of the four sons of the famous journalist of the pre-independence era, K. Rao (Kotamraju Narayana Rao) retired from the Indian Audit and Accounts Service as Director General in November 1990.
