Ananyo Chakraborty is a PhD student of History at the Australian National University. Having pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate education in History at the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Delhi respectively, he is currently working on an environmental history of the Partition of India, focusing on transboundary rivers, shifting landmasses, and issues of territorial sovereignty. He is also a member of the ANU Centre for Environmental History, ANU South Asia Research Institute, and the ANU Institute of Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Lokayata Blog of the Sankrityayan Kosambi Study Circle and is the founder of the first socio-political newsletter in Bengali, Protorko. His political commentaries have been published in leading English and Bengali news outlets in India.