Dushyanth Sridhar

Dushyanth Sridhar (born 1986) is a public speaker (Upanyaskar), and writer on topics related to Sanatana Dharma. He delivers discourses in Tamil and English. He has learnt scriptures like Sri Bhashyam, Gita Bhashyam, Rahasya-traya Saram and Bhagavad Vishayam. He has delivered many live discourses in multiple countries [1] and in several regional television channels. He has a Youtube presence with over ten million views and content that runs for 1000 hours.[2]. He organizes religious tours (yatras) to ancient Vishnu temples in association with a travel agent and they have together have taken 2000 people to 200 temples spanning 12 states and 6 countries in a 5-year period covering a distance of 20,000 miles..

Dushyanth Sridhar was born into a Tamil family living in Bengaluru. His father was a marketing professional and his mother, a school teacher. He started to study Sanskrit and the Vedas from the age of five when his parents enrolled him in Sanskrit and Veda classes. After studying in schools in Bangalore and Chennai, he joined BITS Pilani and studied chemical engineering and chemistry there.

Sridhar passed out of BITS, Pilani in 2008, by which time he had given a dozen upanyasams. He was under the impression that these upanyasams were a passing fad. Thereafter, Sridhar worked one year at the practice school at Century Rayon, Shahad and subsequently worked in the corporate sector in a number of companies including a market research firm in Mumbai and in TCS. He subsequently quit working in the corporate sector in 2016 and currently spends all his time studying the Vedas and delivering lectures on television channels as well as in public gatherings.

Sridhar also conceptualizes dance ballets with leading classical dancers on Vaishnavism like ''Aranganin Pathaiyil' (on Srirangam),'Srinivasam Prapadye' (on Tirupati), 'Bhavam' (on devotion) , 'Malyada' (on Andal) which were received positively. He renders thematic Katha-Kutcheris with leading Carnatic vocalists. He penned the story, screenplay and dialogue for the movie 'Vedanta Desika' besides donning the role of the protagonist under the Muktha Films . He assisted the director - Muktha Sundar. He carries out restoration of ancient Vedanta Desika shrines and contributes to the society through a charitable trust called 'Desika Daya' that he runs with a small group of volunteers. He manages a mobile application called 'Desika Daya' through which he makes audio content of 1000 hours to 5000 plus subscribers for free. He authored a coffee-table book[3] on 'Vedanta Desika' to commemorate his 750th birth celebrations. He has received awards like Young Achiever, 30-under-30, Best Parliamentarian, Best Outgoing Student, Best School Pupil leader and has received coveted titled like Sarva Kala Chudamani, Harikatha Bharathi, Sollin Selvan, Bhagawata Bhaswan from various institutions of excellence.