Ravinder Kumar Soni (Hindi: रविंदर कुमार सोनी ), the eldest son of Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi (1913–1986), was born on 5 April 1944 at Delhi. He is a scholar devoted to the study and interpretation of traditional Hindu thought and Jyotisa. He has been writing on these subjects and has to his credit three significant books: a) In search of True Happiness - a collection of his essays on the thought and concepts of the Upanishads, b) The Illumination of Knowledge, which is a reflection on the role of Agni highlighted by the Vedic Seers and c) Planets and their Yoga Formations, which is a treatise on Hindu Astrology dealing with select yogas i.e. planetary combinations, in the context of the twelve Zodiac signs rising in the lagna or ascendent. He had picked up these threads from his teacher