Prof. Nagaraj Paturi, trained in Sanskrit and Advaita Vedanta by his hyper-polyglot, polymath and spiritually accomplished sakala-shaastra-paarangata father, late Sri. Paturi Sitaramanjaneyulu, is seriously committed to the transmission of Vedic sciences to the present generation. For the last 30 years, he has been teaching Vedic Aesthetics/Poetics as applied to Classical Literature, Traditional Indian Grammar and Modern Linguistics to postgraduate level students, specializing in folk-classical (Vedic) interface through his fieldwork-based research. He has also been teaching in Cultural Studies related courses such as Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Semiotics, Cognitive Cultural Studies etc. to students of Design, Communication, Classical Dance, Business Management etc. employing Vedic Science approaches in suitable portions of the course.
He has been the co-convener of Veda Vijnana Vedika which is an organisation dedicated to popularising Vedic Sciences through monthly seminars and occasional symposiums.
Presently he is –
- Senior Director, Indica
- Director, Inter-Gurukula, University Centre for Indic knowledge Systems of Indic Academy
- Distinguished Professor, Curriculum Designer, Executive Committee Member and Member, Board of Studies, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune
- Member, Board of Studies for Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University and Veda Vijnana Gurukula
And formerly
- Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of Liberal Education;
- Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, US
- In his PhD (1998, UoH), he developed an Indic Model of Myth Criticism of Literature; and his MPhil (1987, UoH) brought out Vākyapadīyam as the theoretical foundation of Ashtādhyāyī.
With around 50 publications and 60 conference/seminar/workshop papers, he has provided consultancy to numerous culture research, theatre and dance innovation projects. Also to his credit are scores of creative writing works for classical dance, modern theatre and magazines, in addition to several series of talks and other programs on radio and television channels.