Pankaj Sekhsaria is Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. His most recent book is 'Instrumental Lives - an intimate biography of an Indian laboratory (Routledge 2019). The India edition is being released in November 2019.
He has a long-standing association with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI) as a member of the environmental action group, Kalpavriksh. He is the author also of 'Islands in Flux - the Andaman and Nicobar Story' (Harper Collins India 2017), a collection of his journalism based on the islands over the last two decades. His debut novel 'The Last Wave' (HarperCollins India, 2014) was also set in the Andaman islands and he is also co-editor of The Jarawas Reserve Dossier for UNESCO (2010).
He is also author of 'The State of Wildlife in Northeast India 1996-2011: News and Information from the Protected Area Update, published by Foundation for Ecological Security.