About Me

Nirmaldasan, pen name of N. Watson Solomon, is the creator of a few readability formulae, including the Strain Index. He is Assistant Professor of Journalism in the School of Media Studies, SRM University, Kattankulathur, some forty kilometres south of Chennai, India.

He is the Media Advisor to the Organisation for Studies in Literature and the Environment-India (OSLE-India), the Secretary of the Indian Online Media Forum and Founder-Editor of the Journalism Online newsletter.  His interests include chess, poetry and mathematics.

Do visit the nirmaldasan home page at http://www.angelfire.com/nd/nirmaldasan to know about his literary and journalistic pursuits.