Pranjali Sirasao

Pranjali Sirasao hosts a weekly program, Chai Time, at Stanford University, KSZU 90.1 FM, every Sunday. This program explores current events and issues relevant to South Asian literature, culture, and music.

She is a faculty member in the department of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before this, Pranjali taught at UC Davis and Stanford and has worked as a Hindi consultant at Google.

Pranjali Sirasao is part of various initiatives dedicated to promoting Hindi/Urdu literature and giving a platform to local poets and writers to share and enrich their creativity. For this, she co-founded Vishwa Hindi Jyoti where she held the position of President in the year 2017. She is a co-organizer of the Hindi, Urdu, Sufi Poetry and Literature group in San Francisco.

Pranjali Sirasao is involved with many nonprofit organizations in San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, Pranjali is a board member in a nonprofit organization; the Ethnic Arts Foundation is focussed on preserving the art of Mithila paintings. As part of this organization, Pranjali has provided translation and text for the book Mithila Reverie: Meditations on the Devanagari Script by renowned French Artist Martin LeCoz. The book can be purchased at Amazon.com.

She is also a board member of Uttar Pradesh Mandal of America working towards providing education to underprivileged kids in India. She is also a volunteer coordinator in the nonprofit organization SANKARA eye foundation.

Currently, she is working on translating Kabir Bhajans with Kabir bhajan singer, Padmshri Prahlad Singh Tapaniya and also documenting artists of Madhubani painting in Bihar, India.