How to pronounce “sridhar” in English

Sridhar Ranganathan: I think you should speak here.

Sridhar Ranganathan: You want this?

Sridhar Ranganathan: So there's a teacher here and she's gonna conduct a class with you guys.

Sridhar Ranganathan: Are you ready?

Sridhar Ranganathan: And is example of Shankar teaching one of his songs -- Shankar Mahadevan: I'm not using all the songs, this song I'm teaching --

Sridhar Ranganathan: we're launching this song on May 8th which happens to be the Mother's Day and the song was aptly named Maa.

Sridhar Ranganathan: So I'll show you a small?

Sridhar Ranganathan: Now when you arrive at the bridge as we can call it for this song that is when your singing has to be very--

Sridhar Ranganathan: Okay, so we can tell .

Sridhar Ranganathan: And the teachers have to go through a teacher's certification program.

Sridhar Ranganathan: Okay.

Sridhar Ranganthan: It's an Academy we'll have annual programs, contests, competitions.

Sridhar Ranganathan: Two more questions.

And Sridhar was even thinking of developing something, a platform for education.

Okay -- Sridhar Ranganathan: Let's have a loud round of applause for Padma Shakar because --

KR Sridhar, CEO of Bloom Energy, the innovators of the Bloom Box which has gotten a lot of media attention lately, and I guess there are probably a rack of Bloom Boxes here on

And Murali and Sridhar in the Bay Area, in Milpitas to be precise, along with their friends, they joined hands and created one

And an engineering college mate of mine Sridhar Ranganathan we met after 15 years.

So there's a virtual class I think Sridhar talked about once every week on Thursday for half an hour.

Shankar Mahadevan: It's just a month old, we just started March 3rd but we have -- Sridhar Ranganathan: Absolutely.

Thanks to my good friend P. Balasubramaniam here, who was inspiring and motivating his nephews, Murali and Sridhar.

So I'd like to welcome my friend and my partner, the CEO of Shankar Mahadevan Academy, Sridhar Ranganathan.