A walking encyclopedia of verse and trivia. When Nidhi quotes Kālidāsa, birds stop mid-flight to listen. Former archivist of the Kālidāsa Manuscript Project and literary critic for *Sanskṛta Vāṇī*. His intimate knowledge of classical texts is matched only by his ability to make ancient poetry relevant to contemporary readers. Believes that each poem is a time machine and each verse hides a universe. Approaches literature not as dead text but as living conversation across millennia.