About the author

Dr. Srinivasan was born in the village of Amruthur, Kunigal Taluk in the Karnataka State. He functions as a Hindu Priest in Connecticut performing a wide variety of pujas, ceremonies, weddings, housewarming, and bhajans since 1971. He has developed a format for weddings of Hindu youngsters entering into inter-racial marriages. He delivered monthly lectures on the Bhagavadgita for over 9 years and monthly lectures on the Mahabharata to the Indian community for a period of 5 years. He has published a book entitled Yaksha Prashna: A Hindu Primer based on the Mahabharata series of lectures. He choreographed and directed a play, " The Coronation of Ramachandra", which was performed by the children in the community in 1984 and 1985. He has published/presented over 50 papers on
a variety of cultural, social and religious issues in the U.S. and India. He is the primary founder of the Connecticut Valley Hindu Temple Society (1979) and served as its first President. He served as member, Prime Minister of India's Committee on Aeronautics (1984-86) and serves as member, Interfaith Council, Glastonbury. He was nominated to receive the Ellis island Medal of Honor in 1993. He taught Epics of India in the History Department at University of Connecticut (1995) and taught Sanskrit to graduate students at Wesleyan University in 1985. 

The above are excerpts from the booklet How to Conduct Puja to SriKrishna, by Dr. A. V. Srinivasan, published by http://www.periplusbooks.com/.

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