Malladi Chandrasekhara Sastry (28 August 1925 – 14 January 2022) was an Indian scholar and television personality who specialized in the Vedas and Puranas texts in the Telugu and Sanskrit languages.
He was the principal of a college run by the trust named Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams where they do pravachan (lectures) on the Puranas.
[1][2] His grandfather, Sriman Malladi Ramakrishna Chainulu, was not only an authority in Vedic and Sanskrit literature, but also a propagator of the Advaita Vedanta Siddhanta (doctrine) over Andhra Pradesh.
His speaking ability allowed him to give a discourse at an event presided over by scholar Viswanatha Satyanarayana at Vijayawada.
Sastry cited the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, and the oratorios of Dattatreya among his favorite works for discourses.