Mathoor Krishnamurty

Mathoor Krishnamurty is an Indian writer, scholar and the director of the Bengaluru centre of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.^[1] He has written several articles on Vedas and Upanishads^[2] and has published books including Gandhi Upanishad, a biographical account on Mohandas Gandhi,^[3] and The World Is One Family: Wisdom of the Vedas.^[4] He is a recipient of the 2008 Sir M. Visvesvaraya Shiromani Award of the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Foundation.^[1] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2009, for his contributions to Literature and Education.^[5]