Without sounding critical or too judgmental, I think Mr. Rao uses the "narrative" style almost akin to a stream of consciousness writing. I have only read a few of his books (jaimini, dasas, destiny, reincarnation, saints, and a few others). Quite frankly, I had to mentally filter out his references to Mr. Raman in some of his writings
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I have personally gained a lot from BVR's books which were way above many others available when I was a bachcha jyotishi, in hindi or English. I found similar strains in his interview videos and forum sharings, years ago. But no one is perfect and even BVR whose magazine I learned a lot from those back in the 60s 70s, used to have content (some written by him under pen-names (I suspect and assume!) which were directed against scientists etc and which I found a bit skewed (biased). But all those could be my personal bias too
Either way, both KNR and BVR have been powerhouses who injected the proverbial adrenaline in the flailing arm of jyotish and stretched the frontiers, if not horizons of Jyotish in a global sense and hence in my book remain very significant figures. Santhanam also, though not liked by some, was significant through his focus on making jyotish literature available to English-speaking folks.
Among writers from India, I personally like the writings of Dr. KSC; it is a pity that he did not continue writing, but given his professional responsibilities that is understandable.
From my web-explorations in the field of jyotish (having been cut-off from India decades ago in a physical sense), I am sure that there remains a vastly untapped treasure of jyotish knowledge, particularly in South India and which has for one reason or another simply remained unshared even in India. Which is unfortunate but that is how it is and perhaps may remain so... Our loss, I suppose! <sigh>
If the horoscope truly portrays one, it should be interesting to study the charts of these writers/teachers about their writing-communicating styles, but that would not be appropriate to do on public forums.
Anyways, variety is the spice of life...
Regards,
Rohiniranjan
{{Addendum: I forgot to mention the name of PVR Narasimha Rao. Although I read his book on Integrative approach, much later in my journey -- he writes very lucidly and his book, now available for free for some years, is a good one for beginners and even intermediate students of astrology.}}