Srinivas Reddy is a scholar, translator, and classical sitarist. In 1998 he graduated from Brown University with a BA in South Asian Studies and completed his senior project entitled NaadaSat, a multi-instrumental ensemble piece that reflected his growing interest in South Asian philosophy and music. After moving to San Francisco in 1998, Srinivas met his guru and mentor Pandit Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Since then, Srinivas has dedicated himself to Indian classical music and rigorously trained with his teacher in the traditional guru-shishya style. Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the US, India, and Europe. He has three albums to his credit: GITA (1999), Sitar & Tabla (2001) and Hemant & Jog (2008).
In 2011 Srinivas graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies. Under the guidance of Professor George L. Hart, he studied Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu literary traditions and completed his thesis on the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya and his grand Telugu epic Āmuktamālyada. A translation of the work entitled Giver of the Worn Garland was published by Penguin Books in 2010. Srinivas has gone on to publish several articles in reputed journals and four more books including the critically acclaimed Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara (Juggernaut 2020) and Illuminating Worlds: An Anthology of Classical Indian Literature (Bloomsbury 2024).
Srinivas is a Guest Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at IIT Gandhinagar and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Contemplative Studies at Brown University. Last year he was Fulbright-Nehru fellow at IIT Gandhinagar. To learn more, visit his website sankalpana.org.