Pankaj Sekhsaria (private)
Pankaj Sekhsaria is a long time member of the environmental group Kalpavriksh and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. His research interests lie at the intersection of science, environment, society and technology.
He has written extensively on issues of the environment and wildlife with a special focus on the A&N Islands. His books on the islands include his debut novel The Last Wave (HarperCollins 2014) Islands in Flux (Harper Litmus 2019), which is a collection of 20 years of his journalism about the islands and most recently Waiting for Turtles (Kardi Tales 2021) – an illustrated story book and his first for children on turtle nesting in the Andamans. (also in Hindi and Telugu).
His recent books in the broad field of Sociology of Technology include Instrumental Lives - an intimate biography of an Indian laboratory (Routledge 2019) and Nanoscale - Society's deep impact on science, technology and innovation in India (Authors Upfront, 2020).
He is a keen photographer as well and has three photographic exhibitions to his credit:
Island Worlds... of land and sea: a photographic exhibition of his A&N pics that were all printed on silk fabric (exhibited in Pune, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad and Delhi over the period 2016-18)
Many Yarns of the cotton handloom exhibition: a multi-media exhibition on cotton handlooms of Andhra and Telangana (New Delhi, 2018) and
The river and the macaque: a photographic exhibition of 'nature in the city' (Hyderabad, 2019)