Sunderam was educated in Mumbai, where he applied to several colleges, including to study engineering and medicine, but the culinary institute was the first to accept him so he enrolled.
[2] Working with Ashok Bajaj's Knightsbridge Group, Sunderam opened Rasika in December 2005,[3] in downtown DC (Penn Quarter).
[2] The restaurant also receives widely favorable reviews[5] and while President Barack Obama twice celebrated his birthday with dinner at Rasika.
[6] In August 2016, Sunderam and the Knightsbridge Group opened a new restaurant in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington called Bindaas, focused on Indian street food.
[9] The book is co-authored with Bajaj and DC-based chef and author David Hagedorn,[10] and includes the recipe for palak chaat, Rasika's signature crispy spinach dish.