Publications

Illuminating Worlds

RAYA

The Cloud Message

The Dancer and the King

Giver of the Worn Garland

RAYA (Telugu)

RAYA (Marathi)

RAYA (paperback)

Music

Video Archive

Hemant & Jog

GITA

Selected Articles

Why Should We Read The Classics?
To slow down. And to appreciate our cultural and social diversity

Scroll — December 22, 2024

Mother Tamil, Father Sanskrit
The Influence of Dravidian Culture on Sanskrit

Scroll — October 19, 2024

In Praise of India’s Civilizational Contribution to the World
To celebrate India’s 78th Independence Day

A Lotus in the Mud — August 15, 2024

Women in a Garden on a Moonlit Night
Double Take

Manual - RISD — March 21, 2024

An Open Conversation on Buddhism
Srinivas Reddy with Peter Isackson and Steven Elleman

Fair Observer — October 23, 2022

Seven Seas and an Ocean of Wisdom
An Indian Episteme for the Indian Ocean

The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (Routledge) — November 19, 2022

Stallions of the Indian Ocean

Researching Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond (UCL Press) — March 30, 2022

Authority, Critique, and Revision in the Sanskrit Music-Theoretic Tradition
Rereading the Svara-mela-kalānidhi

Asian Music — January 1, 2015

The Tree of Life
Community lessons from the plant kingdom

OPEN The Magazine — August 21, 2020

Disrupting Mughal Imperialism
Piracy and Plunder on the Indian Ocean

Asian Review of World Histories — February 1, 2022

The Dispersion of Honey
Telugu in the Diaspora

People's Linguistic Survey of India (Orient Blackswan) — February 15, 2022

What Does Sita Really Say In Valmiki’s Ramayana?

The Caravan — July 18, 2018

Covid-19 – A Rejuvenating Balm for the Planet

Hindustan Times — June 8, 2020

Re-envisioning Engineering Education in India
IIT Gandhinagar’s Foundation Programme

Current Science — July 2, 2018

A Hundred Grains of Rice
Regional Mahābhārata Stories in Performance

The South Asianist: Journal of South Asian Studies — March 1, 2017

Make it Telugu
Legitimizing Author, Patron and Text

Agency and Patronage in Eastern Translatology — February 7, 2015

Tale of the Untouchable Devotee
from Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Āmuktamālyada

Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal — March 1, 2014

Books