Dr.Santosh Kumar Sastry Bachampalli is a well known 'prachana karta' for Telugu speaking people across the world. As a disciple of Sri Malladi Chandrasekhara Sastry, Sri Santosh Kumar Sastry garu is known for his contributions for spreading Sanatana Dharma across the regions.

Serving as Asthana Pandit of Sringeri Samsthanam, Sri Bachampalli Santosh Kumar Sastry garu has served as the founding directors for the Sri Venkateshwara Bhakti Channel, during the inception stages. Laying out down the foundation for SVBCs' multilanguage path, and at the same time keeping the core Bhakti principles at the very foundation, Sri Bachampalli garu has taken up the task of spreading the Sanatana Dharma on instructions of Sringeri Samsthanam.

Sri Sastry garu has conducted over 500 Bhagavatha Events, with over 25000 hrs of discourses. This includes over 250 events of 7 day Bhagavatha Discourses across locations in India, USA. Travelling to many nooks and corners of India, Sri Sastry garu has been following the advisory of Sringeri Samsthanam to be able to travel even to the small villages to spread awareness. 

With spread of social media, and with unscrupulous organizations trying to scare people at the name of Astrology, Sri Sastry garu took upon himself to be able to provide guidance on Astrology. Many are familiar of Sri Sastry garu being the 'panchaga karta' of Ugadi Celebrations during the Telengana Government celebrations. Sri Sastry garu uses his profound knowledge of Sanatana Dharma and combines it with his keen insights of Astrology to provide solutions and answers to many astrological questions. 

Sri Sastry garu has been many accolades and honors to his credit. Some of the key ones are:

• Pouranika Pravara- by Sringeri Samsthana HH Sri Sri Bharati Teertha Mahaswami

• Pouranika Kesari- by Adi Shankara Bhakti Samajam

• Pravachana Nidhi- by HH Sri Sri Ganapati Sacchinanda Swami

Apart from these, other titles accorded included Bhagavatha Sudhanidhi, and Arsha Dharma Pradepika.

We are really fortunate to have Sri Sastry garu visiting US. Let us all take our time to invite, listen to him and do our parts for spreading the greater good of Sanatana Dharma.