Gopalakrishna Bharati

Gopalakrishna Bharathi (Tamil: கோபாலகிருஷ்ண பாரதி) (1810–1896) was a Tamil poet and a composer of Carnatic music. He composed the Kathakalakshepam (Tamil: கதாகாலக்ஷேபம்) Nandanar Charitram, two other works in this genre, and many independent kritis.

Bharathi was a contemporary of Thyagaraja whom he is said to have met, and who asked him whether he had composed anything in the raga AbhOgi; Bharathi composed overnight one of his most popular kritis in rUpaka tALa, Sabhaapatikku vERu. The great Tamil literary figure, U. V. Swaminatha Iyer wrote two sources for Bhaarati's life: a biography of the composer and his own autobiography, which contains references to Bharathi, who was his guru in music.