Writer, Life Skills Coach, and Documentary Filmmaker
Raghothama Rao is a Tirupati-based writer, life skills coach, and documentary filmmaker who left a 17-year corporate career in 2012 to devote himself to Indian culture and history. As a resource person for Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel (SVBC), he scripted over 300 episodes and played a key role in launching SVBC–3 for Kannada broadcasting. He also translated more than 150 Kannada devotional kīrtanas into Telugu for TTD’s Dasa Sahitya Project, supporting Telugu bhajana groups.
Since 2018, he has produced over 200 videos on the Vijayanagara Empire and recently begun work on the Kākatīya Dynasty. He runs aavakaaya.in, a well-regarded Telugu content portal, and documents Madhva community history on his blog Madhva History. A postgraduate in English Literature, Raghothama ji has been training TTD employees in Purāṇas, Itihāsas, and devotional literature since 2011.
With his work spanning scriptwriting, translation, media, teaching and corporate, he is a respected scholar and storyteller, bringing clarity, accessibility and authenticity to the study of Itihāsa and Purāṇas.
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This foundational course explores the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata through a Śāstric lens, empowering participants to critically understand their narratives, characters, and teachings. Learners will be equipped to distinguish authentic interpretations from modern distortions and reclaim the wisdom of the ṛṣis for contemporary discourse and use.
What happens when ideas from sacred texts are carved into stone? Śāstra in Stone explores how the philosophical and legal frameworks of Dharmaśāstra, inscribed in stones, shaped the public life of medieval South India, not only in theory, but in lived governance, social order, and sacred institutions.