Anand Teltumbde is a leading public intellectual, author and civil rights activist. He's also regarded as one of the foremost authorities on Ambedkar and the Dalit movement in India. A polymath, his scholarship ranges from socio-political analysis to big data analytics.

Among his significant books are The Radical in Ambedkar (ed., 2018), The Republic of Caste (2018), Dalits: Past, Present and Future (2016), Mahad: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt (2016), The Persistence of Caste (2010), and Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop (2008). Teltumbde regularly contributed to Mainstream, Frontier, Seminar and most leading English newspapers and wrote Margin Speak, one of the longest running columns in the Economic & Political Weekly. He held top management positions in his corporate career and taught at IIT, Kharagpur and Goa Institute of Management Business Management and Big Data Analytics respectively.