Sri N V Raghava chary was born in 1913 in a village near Madras. He practiced as an Advocate for 50 years and was honoured Posthumously by the Hon’ble Justice, Madras High Court on 15th December 1994. He had spent more than two-thirds of his life on Astrological Research. From his younger days, it was his endeavour to learn Astrology and perfect it to the extent possible he was working on the importance of the constellations and some basic concepts of the Stellar Astrology.It is the known fact that the BOOK on Nadi Jyothisa published in early forty’s with the pen name MEENA was a joint work of Sri R Gopala Krishna Row and Sri N V Raghava Chary.

Jyotisha Acharya, Daivagna Shiromani, NVRA Raja, popularly known as JUNIOR MEENA - 2 is an eminent philosopher, counselor and practicing Astrologer for the past 15 years. He was born in the year 1956 at Trivellore near Chennai (T.N.) and did his schooling and graduation in science.

He had been interested in the phenomenon of occult right from the very beginning. He had the fortune of guidance of his father who did 60 years of jyotisha research particularly in Stellar Astrology (Naadi). He was drawn to occultism and gradually destined towards astrology. As he prosecuted his studies and acwuired the qualification in M.A. (Astrology), M.A.(Philosophy and Religion), P.G.Diploma in Business Management and Administration.

He was honoured with the titles of "Jyothisa Ratnakara","Jyothisa Vijnana Marthanda","Jyothisa Vidya Bhushanam","Jyothisa Maha Sidhanthi","Jyothisa Vidya Bhaskara","Jyothisa Acharya","Jyothisa Vidya Nipuna","Jyothisa Rakshamani","Daivagna Ratna","Daivagna Shiromani","Daivagna Bhushanam" and "Nadi Jyothisa Kesari".

He is committed and fully devoted to professional and research activities in astrology. He authored scholarly works and contributed number of research articles to journals. He actively participated in number of conferences, seminars and workshops of National and International and presented research papers apart from love and thrust for the subject.He has a flair for teaching,counseling the people in astrology.He is the Guest Faculty and Examiner to the Telugu University in Astrology to the Master's Programme, permanent faculty member of Universal College of Astrology, Hyderabad and visiting professor to number of learned institutions of Astrology.

Mr. Raja is the trustee of Universal College of Astrology,founder trustee of Universal Astrological Book Trust, Hyderabad, Trustee-secretary of Sri Narayan Giri Ved Vignana Parishad(A Charitable Trust). He was the secretary of Universal Research Institute of Astro-Occult Sciences,Hyderabad. Also, he is holding many honourary titles to his credit in the field of divine subject, Astrology.

He is the life member of number of reputed national and international Astrological associations in India and abroad.He gives predictions,counseling,and training in Astrology,personally and through online (http://www.astrologytraining.com),solving the problems of people using astrology.He believes that the subject,astrology should reach the end user who needs it and has been working hard towards this noble cause continuously.