Ravi M. Gupta, also known as Radhika Ramana Dasa (IAST: Rādhikā Ramaṇa Dāsa), is a notable Vaishnava scholar, author, and editor.
In Boise, Idaho, he was raised and home-schooled along with his younger brother with a curriculum based mostly on the Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana), from which he learned English, comprehension skills, critical thinking, debate, and communication.
Rather than contemporary novels and story books, it was full of classical literature like Shakespeare, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
[7][8] His thesis focused on the early development of Vedanta philosophy in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition, based on original manuscript sources.
His research interests include the Bhagavata Purana's Sanskrit commentaries, Vaishnava bhakti traditions, interreligious dialogue, and the relationship between faith, scholarship, religion and ecology.