 He is one of the associate editors of the book "From Fishing Hamlet To Red Planet" and a co-author of "," both tracing the history of Indian Space Research Organisation.Suresh had a very humble early life, with his father determined to make him an engineer.His father B. Nagappa was an agriculturist in Hosakere, Andagar, a small village near Koppa town situated near the holy town of Sringeri in Karnataka, India.