He is best known for being the host of a talk given by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan in 2014. Hari Sreenivasan was born as Hariharan Sreenivasan in the mid-1970s in Mumbai, India to Indian parents. He was raised in Mumbai, India till he was seven years old and then he moved to the United States. He is an American.