years_active label article_title name occupation
1976 -- present self -lrb- 2008 -- present -rrb- krishna kant shukla
 dr krishna kant shukla singer composer poet writer professor physicist ecologist
krishna kant shukla

krishna kant shukla is a physicist , musician , poet , ecologist and educator .
currently , he lives in varanasi , bharat -lrb- india -rrb- and travels all over the world , giving music concerts and lectures .
he is a disciple of the late pandit kumar gandharva and ustaad ali akbar khan .
his concerts and interviews have been aired on national television and radio in india several times .
his interview on a u.s. radio station has been widely acclaimed .
his interview has also appeared on the front page of times of india .
his music concerts consist of singing the poetry of the self realized saints of india , such as kabir , gorakshanath , tulsidas , tyagaraja , surdas , meera on a base of indian classical music .
he has also translated these songs into english and reads out his translation before singing the song in the original vernacular .
he has also extensively researched and recorded the folk songs of rural india , which are becoming extinct .
some of these songs belong to endangered living oral folk traditions that are over fourteen hundred years old .
he also sings these songs .
his lectures on `` spiritual ecology '' have also received wide acclaim in india and abroad .
this is a newly emerging field in the general area of religion , science and the environment .
he is founding trustee and member of saha astitva foundation , a charitable organization that has built a model eco village and organic farm in a tribal area in maharashtra .
this project is the practical aspect of his work on spiritual ecology .
dr. krishna kant shukla is considered by many to be a national treasure .
he is an empaneled member of indian council for cultural relations -lrb- iccr -rrb- , an arm of ministry of external affairs -lrb- india -rrb- government of india .
this entitles him officially to represent india and indian culture as a cultural ambassador in foreign countries .
