About Us

About My Mother

My mother Dr.Rupa is a well-known Sanskrit scholar. She was the professor and head of the department of Sanskrit at Maharaja’s college, University of Mysore. She is now retired. She is a gold medalist and she has done her doctoral research in ‘Apastambha-gruhya-sutras’. She has authored many books of which some are published by well-known publishers like Ramakrishna Mission, Samskritabharati, Sudharma, Janapada prakashana and some are self- published. She received the prestigious ‘Granthapuraskar’ from the honourable Governor of Karnataka for her book ‘BalakathaaH’.

About Me

Namaamsi. I am the founder of Tattvam and a passionate Sanskrit teacher. I have taught Sanskrit to hundreds of people (kids and adults), about 500 through Tattvam and a few more hundreds outside Tattvam, through very creative and interesting teaching methods. I offer Sanskrit classes for kids and adults separately.

My Sanskrit journey began from the time I was in my mother’s womb. My mother was pursuing her pHd in vedic mantras (vivaaha mantras to be specific) when I was in her womb. And as soon as I started speaking she spoke to me in Sanskrit and we converse only in Sanskrit to this day. Since my mother is a Sanskrit scholar many other scholars kept visiting our home and I used to listen to their scholarly discussions.

Also many people, Indians and foreigners would come home to learn Samskritam. When my mother was busy in her work she would assign me the task of teaching Samskritam. I started teaching Samskritam from my high school days. I first taught Sanskrit to a small group of Thai Buddhist monks. I totally enjoyed the whole experience

Namaamsi. I am the founder of Tattvam and a passionate Sanskrit teacher. I have taught Sanskrit to hundreds of people (kids and adults), about 500 through Tattvam and a few more hundreds outside Tattvam, through very creative and interesting teaching methods. I offer Sanskrit classes for kids and adults separately.

My Sanskrit journey began from the time I was in my mother’s womb. My mother was pursuing her pHd in vedic mantras (vivaaha mantras to be specific) when I was in her womb. And as soon as I started speaking she spoke to me in Sanskrit and we converse only in Sanskrit to this day. Since my mother is a Sanskrit scholar many other scholars kept visiting our home and I used to listen to their scholarly discussions.

Also many people, Indians and foreigners would come home to learn Samskritam. When my mother was busy in her work she would assign me the task of teaching Samskritam. I started teaching Samskritam from my high school days. I first taught Sanskrit to a small group of Thai Buddhist monks. I totally enjoyed the whole experience

Though my mother suggested me to take up Sanskrit in college, I chose to go for engineering due to peer pressure. After completing engineering I joined a multi-national company as an assosciate software engineer. I worked there for an year and realised that this is not my cup of tea. I resigned the job, very soon got married and moved to Chennai. At every phase Samskritam was always with me. I was teaching this language casually to friends and family and I was also the sub-editor of Samskrita-tarangini, a Sanskrit-English bilingual daily. Then I did M.A in Sanskrit from Karnataka State Open University. Immediately after completing MA in Sanskrit, I got a job as a Sanskrit teacher in Akshar centre of Education, a waldorf school in Chennai. I enjoyed my job to the core and I developed my teaching skills here. Then I had to move abroad due to my husband’s job and so I resigned from Akshar. I started Tattvam and developed my own online classes. People were able to learn Sanskrit very easily and they all learnt the language very happily. When I got great feedback I focused on developing level 2 classes for adults and also kids classes online. All these courses got great feedback which motivates me to go on teaching this wonderful language.

Due to the current times which forced most schools to go online, I got an opportunity to teach Sanskrit online at Pokhrama Foundation Academy which is an NGO which works towards providing quality education to the kids of Pokhrama village in Bihar. These kids are first-generation learners and show a lot of interest in learning. I feel very happy and satisfied teaching these kids.