Srinivas Rath

Srinivas Rath is a poet writing in Sanskrit. He lives in Ujjain, India and was instrumental in the sustenance of the Kalidas Akademi, a center of arts and literature in Western India. Rath Sahib, as he is called by many, has written a collection of poems entitled "tad eva gaganam saiva dhara," published by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in the 1990s (already two impressions), which won a Sahitya Akademi Award for 1999, and is still completing a mahakavya entitled Baladevacarita.