# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chamu-krishna-shastry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:33:56.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chamu-krishna-shastry"
name: "Chamu Krishna Shastry"
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description: "Chamu Krishna Shastry is an Indian educationist who has been working for the revival of the Sanskrit language. He is the trustee and Secretary of Samskrit Promotion Foundation. Shastry is also the co-founder of Samskrita Bharati, an organization that promotes teaching Sanskrit as a contemporary language. On the 25 of January 2017, he was the Delhi recipient of the Padma Shri award, for his contributions towards Literature and Education."
tagline: "Indian linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cha.Mu.Krishna_Shastri.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump