Shri Mangesh V. Nadkarni, is presently known all over India for his focused contemplations on Sri Aurobindo's epic poem, Savitri. Shri Nadkarni did his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in the application of Chomskyan Grammars to Indo-European constructions and went on to an academic career as a Professor of Linguistics at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad and later at the National University of Singapore. During the course of his professorship, he guided a large number of Master's and Ph.D. candidates and published his research in theoretical and applied Linguistics in national and international journals.

He was closely connected to the Sri Aurobindo Society Center at Singapore and lectured extensively there and abroad on the philosophy and vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. After his retirement, he has devoted his full time to the study and explication of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, holding several study camps on this subject at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and elsewhere. A set of sixteen audio-cassettes containing talks given by him on Savitri at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram have been published. He is also the author of the following monographs:

• A Brief Introduction to Savitri.
• Problems of Human Unity in Sri Aurobindo's Light.
• Hindu-Muslim Unity in Sri Aurobindo's Light.

Shri Nadkarni presently resides in Hyderabad, though he is touring most of the year in connection with the explication of Savitri and other aspects of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga.

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