Bio
Shankar Rajaraman, a psychiatrist by profession, writes Sanskrit poetry. He won the best poet of the year award by Karnataka Sanskrit University for the work Devidanaviyam, a poem that belongs to the genre of Chitrakavya (poetry that is composed amid constraints and that is aimed at creating wonder in the reader). He has co-translated two Sanskrit works to English: Kokila-sandesha by Uddanda and Madhuraa-vijayam by Gangadevi. He has also translated two works on Ayurvedic dietetics, Kshema-kutuhalam and Bhojana-kutoohalam, from Sanskrit to English.