Prof Kittu Reddy was born in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh in 1936. He is the nephew of Late Sanjiva Reddy, the former President of India.
At the young age of 5 he was taken to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry by his parents. Brought up in the spiritual ambience of the Ashram, he has lived there ever since. He had all his education at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from where he graduated in 1957. In 1958, he started teaching at the same Centre, first at the school level and later from 1969 at the College level. His subjects today are: The Foundations of Indian Culture, Political Science, Social Science, and History. It must be mentioned that all these subjects are taught in the light and vision of Sri Aurobindo. He has also been in the administration of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1958 to 1976.
In 1987, he came in contact with the Indian Army and has been giving talks to the Indian Army on Motivation and Leadership and the Mission of India.
In 1994, at the request of General BC Joshi who was then Chief of Army Staff, he moved over to Delhi for two years to help him in his work. He was appointed Adviser to the Army Welfare Education Society. AWES is the organisation that looks after Army Schools. He was also assigned the task of writing capsules for the training institutions of the Army from the induction stage till the rank of senior officers with the intention of introducing spirituality as a motivating factor. He has also worked closely with the Army Schools and is at present a founding member of the Academic Advisory Council of AWES.
After the passing away of General Joshi, he worked closely with General Shankar Roy Chowdhury when he was the Chief of the Indian Army. Since then he has been in close touch with the Armed Forces and has conducted workshops for the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. These workshops deal with Motivation, Leadership, and the Indian nation. They have been held both in Pondicherry and at various training centres of the Armed Forces.
He has travelled extensively in India visiting almost all the training centres of the Army and a few centres of the Navy and Air Force. He has given talks at these stations and held workshops. One of the last workshops was at Vishakapatnam for the officers of the Eastern Naval Command.
He was invited in November 2006 by Army Headquarters to Delhi for a discussion on Stress Management in the Army to try to tackle the problem of suicides and fratricides.
He has also written a book for the Army entitled "Bravest of the Brave" and two monographs "Kargil – the manifestation of a deeper problem" and "Secularism, Religion and Spirituality". He has written two books titled "History of India – A new approach" and A Vision of United India – problems and solutions.
In 1995 he visited the United States and England. In England he addressed the Royal College of Defence Studies. He has been travelling extensively in India in the last few years addressing different groups both in the Army and educational institutions all over the country. He has contributed quite regularly to prestigious French journals on the problems of World unity and psychological development on spiritual lines.
In 2006, he visited Sweden and gave a few talks at the Indo- Swedish Association and at the National Defence College in Stockholm.
In the last few years he has been giving talks at a number of universities in India such as Jadavpur University and Ramakrishna Institute of Indian Culture. These talks are on Social Science and World Unity, Education in India and such other allied topics.
At present he is working closely with the Indian Army on Morals and Ethics.
Books written by Kittu Reddy:
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