Dushyanth Sridhar

Dushyanth Sridhar completed his schooling from NSN Matriculation Higher Secondary School and completed his graduation in Chemical Engineering and postgraduation in Chemistry from BITS Pilani.^[1]

He has learnt Śrī Bhāṣyam, Gītā Bhāṣyam, Rahasya Traya Sāram, Bhagavad Viṣayam, Śatadūṣaṇī and Tirunetuntāṇṭakam from ācāryas like Villivalam Śrī Nārāyaṇa Mahādeśika, Nāvalpākkam Śrī Rāmānuja Tātācār, Cetlur Śrī Śrīvatsānkācār, Nelvoy Śrī Soumyanārāyaṇācār, Villur Śrī Karuṇākarācār and Devanārvilāgam Śrī Sāranāthācār.^{[citation needed]}

Dushyanth Sridhar has delivered over 3,500 discourses across 23 countries.^[2]

He has conceptualized and produced classical dance productions including ‘Agre Paśyāmi’,^[3] ‘Rāmāyaṇa Sudhā’,^[4] ‘Śrīnivāsam Prapadye’ ^[5] and ‘Araṅganin Pādaiyyil’.^[6]

Dushyanth Sridhar acted as the protagonist in the Maṇipravāla movie 'Vedānta Deśika', produced and directed by veteran film-maker Muktha Srinivasan (2018). The movie was a portrayal of the life of Swamy Vedanta Desika. He learnt maṇipravāla (a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, spoken in earlier times), and wrote the storyline and dialogues for the movie.^[7]

Dushyanth Sridhar directed the Sanskrit movie Sakuntalam, starring Payal Vijay Shetty and Shubham Jaibeer Sahrawat.^[8][9] At the Rajasthan International Film Festival held at Jodhpur, the movie won the Special Viewers’ Choice award for Best Regional Feature Film.^{[citation needed]}

Dushyanth Sridhar authored a coffee-table book titled ‘Vedānta Deśika – the peerless poet-preceptor’ for the JSJS trust (2018).^[10]

In 2024, he published ‘Rāmāyanam – Vol 1’ (HarperCollins). In it, Dushyanth presents the Ramayana as a dialogue between Narada and Valmiki.^[11][12]

In the last decade, Dushyanth Sridhar has organized heritage tours to 200 temples with over 3,500 yātrīs. The yātrās have been organized to Divya Desams and Abhimana Sthalams in India, Bhutan, Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. During these yātrās, he has rendered discourses (in Tamil) on ancient Hindu scriptures, and details of the visiting sites, in both aspects viz. religion and architecture.^{[citation needed]}