Ravishankar Venkateswaran is the writer and director of Punyakoti, India's first crowdfunded and crowdsourced animated feature film in Sanskrit. 

He started his career as a copywriter after a Master's Degree in English Literature. He was a pioneer and was instrumental in creating the first interactive multimedia CD-ROM based on Indian fables way back in 1995. Ravi got his exposure to the art of digital animation then. 

Since then, he went on to lead the multimedia team at Jasubhai Digital Media that created technology magazines like CHIP and Digit. 

Ravi completed his MBA in Strategic HR from ITM, Kharghar and worked for the IT major Infosys for over a decade designing HR and Digital Marketing solutions. He set up the Digital Marketing Studio for an American Financial Services Institution.  He has dedicated his life to making Sanskrit Animated Feature Films.

Ravi holds a defensive patent for inventing a method for verifying digital documents while working for Infosys.  Ravi is passionate about trying new ideas and not sticking to a beaten path. 

He believes that India is at the crossroads of a major transformation and wants to contribute to improving the country's standing on the world stage in whatever small way possible.  

Ravi belieives that technology can play a big part in the spread of Sanskrit and has been associated with the Nilekani center at AI4Bharat - an IIT Madras initiative.

He stays in Bangalore with his wife and two children. His hobbies include yoga, alternative medicine, Vedanta and music. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishanv/

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Related: How the first Sanskrit Animated Movie got made.