SANDEEP KALATHIMEKKAD (Kozhikode, Kerala, 1984) has Carnatic music (South-Indian classical music style) as one of his strongest passions alongside others like physics, engineering, poetry, art and sports-journalism. Owing to a scientific and technological higher education, his other interests especially Indian classical music bears its strong impact in exploring the complexities of structure and immersing oneself with the elucidation of a 'Raga'.​

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Since his first concert, an-hour-long one at Thayagaraja Festival in Kozhikode at the age of ten, he had performed in many temples and sangeetha-sabhas (music clubs) all over Kerala and other parts of the country until he left for Europe pursuing post-graduate studies. Also trained in Kathakali music (dance-drama-form from Kerala which has music which is a mixture of classical and folk style), he has sung for Kathakali performances in several venues all across temples in Kerala. Through out his school and college years, he always came out with many prizes in youth festivals and inter-university competitions in both Carnatic and Kathakali music. He has also sung raga-improvisations for many musical-dramas in Cochin university while pursuing MSc in Physics there and often composed background scores for plays and short-films.

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Receiving European Unions's Erasmus Mundus scholarship for 'Optics in Science and technology', he moved to Germany in 2007 for MS in Optics at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. There he formed a fusion-music band with a Bengali sitarist, an Ukrainian guitarist, a Spanish violinist and a German drummer and mixed styles of Carnatic, Hindusthani, Basque-traditional and Jazz and had several performances in Jena. The band also stole the show at the 'International Concert' that was held as part of 450 years of the University celebrations.

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Second year of his Erasmus Mundus course took him to London to do MS in Applied Photonics in Imperial College and the Indian diaspora in England gave him ample chance to perform Carnatic music in several stages, the most notable being a lecture demonstration of Carnatic music in Balliol College, Oxford and Grand Classical Musical Evening organised by Malayali-Association in London.

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In 2009, he started his PhD in Department of Electronics and Information Systems at Centre for Microsystems Technology in Ghent University in the field of Optical Biosensors. Since then he has done concerts, lecture demonstrations and also performed musical accompaniment for Bharathanatyam and Odissi dance in Ghent, Leuven and Brussels several times.

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Also has two published collections of poetry, 'Sheer Echoes of Time', Pranatha Books, 2005 and 'Complaints of a Selfish Soul', Green Books, 2010 along with several poems in international web-journals like 'Soul to Soul Poetry', 'Kritya', 'Thanal' and 'Peregrine Muse'.​