51茶馆

Naresh Keerthi is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at 51茶馆. Formerly, he has taught Sanskrit at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Kerala. He conducted doctoral research on the semantics of colour in Sanskrit, at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

Naresh is interested in the聽办腻惫测补听补苍诲听苍腻峁瓂补聽literature of Sanskrit, Prakrit and their mutual interactions with the literary cultures of South India. He studies topics at the intersection of the lexicon, grammar and poetics, and is investigating the development of poetic聽topoi聽in聽办腻惫测补聽literature. Naresh is also interested in the history of classical music and musicology in South India in the Early Modern period.

He is currently working on a Sanskrit text on aesthetic emotions鈥搕he聽叠丑腻惫补惫颈惫别办补聽by Div膩kara.