Vinoo Krishnaswami Nydoo is a retired teacher who has worked with mainstream pupils, adults, and children with special educational needs in cities as diverse as Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, London and Bangkok. He is also a poet and a freelancer writer and photographer who has had work published in the BBC's Focus on Africa magazine and the Unesco Courier. Vinoo has also exhibited his work in Durban, Paris and London. His most recent exhibition was Intersections and Subsets: An Assignment on Gender and Stereotypes. This exhibition ran at the Globe, Suncoast -Durban in August 2023. Vinoo is also passionate about all genres of music. However he does have a preference for jazz, and his staples are Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Horace Tapscott and musicians of that ilk.