S. K. Ratnam is a historical fiction author and software professional whose writing explores forgotten lives, moral courage, family duty, and the quiet forces that shape history. With an engineering background and a long career in enterprise technology, he brings research discipline, structural precision, and emotional restraint to his literary work. A Woman Named Zanetta: The Silent Stage is the first volume in his historical saga about Zanetta Farussi, the Venetian actress and mother of Giacomo Casanova, restoring dignity and depth to a woman often left in the margins of history.