Astro Mohan.... a renowned press-photographer, Accredited Phojournalist, a magician, an astrologer, a palmist, an orator, an artists and art critic, a prudent program's organizer - sounds incredible, yet a rare blend of all virtues, a synonym by sheer efforts.
Nicknamed as ASTRO, K. H. Mohan, a prodigy and a genius, joined Udayavani, a famous National Kannada Daily published from Manipal, in the year 1993. His deep academic interest in Astrology earned him a prefix to his name ASTRO only to be popularly known as ASTRO MOHAN among friends, well wishers and also uninvitingly among the people who knew the trick of the trade.
Astro Mohan hails from Bellary, and took his early education in a small village known as Cheekanahalli in Hassan District, high school education in Belgaum and degree education in Arts in Canara College, Mangalore.
Astro is striving hard to give new dimension to photography in the field of journalism where telltale photos hold sway over millions of words scribbled.
Recently Astro Won 2nd Place in National Level Photo Computation Organized by Youth Photography club Bangalore.
The rare photographs, which Astro shot on the life style of Dr.Shivaram Karnath, Jnana Peetha Awardee of Kannada literature, have been considered a landmark, which brought name and fame to Mohan as an artistic photographer of vivid interest. His spectacular photographs on the beauty and serenity of various flowers made innumerable art lovers to turn once again to the nature. The floral photos earned wide acclaim as having therapeutic values in the present day tension ridden competitive society. The visual values of the photographs imbibed in them the quality to promote peace and happiness in the viewers.
Astro always exposed himself to the newer challenges of photography, which made him inquisitive in his quest to achieve excellence in the field of art. His cautious and careful observations of the ‘changing facets’ of the Car Street in Udupi inspired him to catch rare glimpses of UDUPI RATHABEEDHI which are moving towards oblivion. Popularly nicknamed as the Hyde Park of the Temple City, the Rathabeedi (Car Street) of Udupi has been gaining mo
