Srinivasan Kalyanaraman is a writer. He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines. He worked for 18 years in Asian Development Bank and retired in 1995. Earlier 20 years, he had worked as Financial Adviser on Indian Railways, Karnataka Electricity Board, Accountant General's office.
He has written over 15 books. They include: Indian Lexicon -- comparative dictionary of 25+ ancient Bharatiya languages (1998)[1], Rama Setu (2007)[2] Rastram -- Hindu history in United Indian Ocean States (2011) proposing constitution of Indian Ocean Community comparable to European Community [3] and Indus Script Cipher—Hieroglyphs of Indian Linguistic Area (2010)[4] which decrypts substantially the Indus script using rebus method (which was also used by Champollion). His decryption should result in more language studies in the Indian sprachbund (language union). Kalyanaraman has proved that the Indus Script was used by stone workers to record their professional skills and repertoire of stones, ores, metals and alloys used and made for trade.
The International Directory of South Asia Scholars (IDSAS) of Columbia University, records his early education at Annamalai University included Hindi, Telugu and Tamil as well as Sanskrit as second a language.[5]
He has authored books on Hindu civilization[6] and Indian alchemy. He has created an Indian Lexicon with about 300,000 words organised in 8000 semantic clusters covering over 25 ancient Indian languages.[7]
He operates "Hindu Civilization" mailing list,[8] has blogs and websites.[9] He was recipient of many awards -- Vakankar Award (2000); Shivananda Eminent Citizens' Award (2008) and Dr. Hedgewar Prajna Samman (2008); Mythic Society Centenary Award (2009). See interview of S. Kalyanaraman on rediff.com [10] He works for creating a National Water Grid in India, an Indian Ocean Community like the European Community. He was National President of Ramasetu Protection Movement which attracted 1.5 million participants in the largest public meeting anywhere in the world held on 31 December 2007 in New Delhi (Rohini Park).[11][12]