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Krithika Subrahmanian

Indian entrepreneur, architect, designer, aesthete, hotelier, author and dancer

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Source revisionSep 1, 2026
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Krithika Subrahmanian is a serial entrepreneur, architect, designer, aesthete, hotelier, author and Indian classical dancer.

Early life and education

Krithika Subrahmanian was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She graduated as an architect from Anna University, Chennai SAP School of Architecture and Planning. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Boston Massachusetts. Krithika and Transform group are an alumnus of Graduate School of Business Stanford University in the SEED.

Career

Subrahmanian is the co-founder and director of Sreshta Leisure, Hospitality company, Metafore and Transform an architecture company based in Chennai. She is also the founder of Svatma, boutique hotel in Tamil Nadu.

Dance career

Krithika, a classical dancer in the Tanjore style of Bharatanatyam, has performed at performing arts venues and for dance festivals such as the Delhi International Arts Festival, the London International Dance Festival, NJPAC, and MACH.

In 2017, Krithika founded the Namaargam dance group, through which she has collaborated on works with musician Ilaiyaraaja, actor Suhasini Maniratnam and dancer Gopika Varma, orator Dushyanth Sridhar, to name a few.

Publications

Subrahmanian, Krithika (2019). The Next Big Thing Thanjavur. Notion Press.

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This entry incorporates text from “Krithika Subrahmanian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.