 He is a senior member of the Travancore Royal Family, after Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma and Revathi Thirunal Balagopal Varma.He lives in Chennai with his wife Geeta, and is a full-time writer.He has two sons, Vinayak Varma and Karthik Varma, and a daughter-in-law, Yamini Vijayan.