Over the years, I have been a part of various astronomy education and public outreach activities. The following is a list of such outreach programs :

During 2014 - 2015, scripted, and anchored an astronomy documentary series for an educational television channel. This seven-episode series won the 2014 State Government Award for the best educational program on television. The print media ran an article on the same - read here.

 In 2019, scripted and directed a 30-minute documentary film in English on the history of the Travancore Observatory, which is a 180-year-old astronomy and meteorology facility in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, in South India. This is the second oldest astronomical observatory in India dating back to the early 19th century. The documentary film bagged two awards, for the best-researched film, and the best technically visualized film, in the 10th National Science Film Festival of India held in November 2020

The film can be viewed here

An article that appeared in The Hindu about the film can be read here.

Since 2013, I have been writing articles for one of the major English-language daily newspapers in India on topics related to science, science heritage, and scientists. Here are some of them :

• A Global Selfie - on the 30th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot
• Life on Earth & Beyond - featuring Henry Throop and the search for life elsewhere in the universe
• To Conquer A Formidable Foe - on cancer research
• Bound to Nature - featuring Kerala Biodiversity Board Chairman
• Digging up the Past - on archaeology with Dr. Ajith Kumar
• Interview with Prof. E C G Sudarshan
• The history and heritage of the Travancore Observatory
• Hidden in the mists of time - on the ancient school of mathematics and astronomy of Kerala
• Words from Another Era - on the Oriental Manuscripts Library
• Reclaiming a Hallowed Past - on ayurveda, conversation with Indudharan Menon
• MOM and Children - on India's Mars Orbiter Mission
• What was Cooking in Harappa? - on anthropologist Brad Chase's work
• The World Within Us - on gut microbes and Jonathan Turney's Book
• Not a Small World Afterall - on ants, and science communication
• Weathering Water Woes - on water conservation
• Fishing For Stories of the Earth - on BBC documentary filmmaker Ian Stewart

Scripted and directed short documentary films on the history of mathematics and astronomy in India. Click on the images below to view the short films:

Padmanabhaswamy Temple: Where Art Blends With Science - an essay published in INDIC TODAY that looks at how the architects of the Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram would have established the east-west orientation of the tower structure in the temple. 

Katapayadi - An Ancient Practice of Encryption - an essay published in INDIC TODAY that explains an ancient Indian art of encoding numbers to letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. The technique was used in many fields including mathematics, astronomy, and music. 

Scripted and narrated programs in astronomy for the All India Radio.

Member of the editorial board of a science magazine for middle and high school teachers  ’I Wonder’, brought out by the Azim Premji Foundation. The online versions can be accessed from this URL :
https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/resources-iwonder.aspx

Part of a team that designed and created a fully web-based introductory astronomy course taught through a science fiction narrative involving characters, animations and multimedia material. This course is being offered to non-science majors at the Pennsylvania State University for several years now.

Have taught open course on introductory astronomy at the Kerala Science and Technology Museum and Planetarium. The participants of these free open course included  students of science, and engineering, and also high school teachers.

With students of the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, have organized a  few “universe in the park” outreach events. As part of this program, portable telescopes  were taken to parks and open spaces in the city for the public to experience star-gazing.

In 2018, was a TEDx speaker. The presentation can be viewed here:  https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_anand_narayanan_cosmic_perspective

Been a part of the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology’s school outreach program IIST@Schools which has a reach-out to over 500 high school and higher secondary school students. Have given astronomy research lectures, and popularization talks at colleges, schools, non-governmental organizations, and collectives supporting school students in their learning.