Santosh Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Sikkim University. Mr. Kumar is pursuing his musical career as an academician and performer of Indian classical music (flute). He took his training under the guidance of his Gurus Pt. Chetan Joshi,  Pt. Devashish Dey and Dr. Prahalad Nath. Mr. Kumar has performed throughout the country as solo and support artist. Besides these Mr. Kumar is engaged in writing research articles and has published more than a dozen of articles for musical, social magazines and research journals. He has presented research papers in many national and international seminars.