Dr. Narendra is a Sanskrit scholar, teacher, and long-term inmate of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. He developed a distinctive method of teaching Sanskrit that draws on the pedagogical inspiration of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, emphasising natural acquisition over rote grammar. Learn Sanskrit — The Natural Way, published by the Ashram's Sanskrit Karyalaya, is among several Sanskrit teaching books he has authored.