Krishna Srinivas

• Name — Dr. Krishna Srinivas • Born — 26 July 1913 • Birthplace — Madras Presidency, British India • Died — 14 December 2007 • Place of death — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India • Occupation — Poet • Awards — 2004 Padma Bhushan

Krishna Srinivas, born on 26 July 1913 at Srirangam in the present day Tiruchirappalli district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu (then known as Madras Presidency), did his college education at University of Madras from where he graduated in 1932. He worked as a Clerk in Chettinad Bank for 6 years between 1936 and 1942. He got a job as a feature writer with AIR All India Radio in Delhi; He would later become the Assistant Director at AIR. However, he returned to Chennai to work as a freelance journalist till he founded a journal, POET, in 1960. Later, he was also involved in the formation of the World Poetry Society Intercontinental ad served as an editorial consultant to the International Who's Who In Poetry And Poets' Encyclopaedia, published by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan in 2004. He died on 14 December 2007, at the age of 94.