Sanjay Deshpande is an archaeologist and a heritage consultant who was born in 1965 in Nagpur, India.Since 1999, he has been actively promoting the cultural and natural heritage in and around the city of Pune.
The author, an archaeologist and heritage consultant, was born in 1965 in Nagpur, India. He grew up in Mumbai (Bombay) but spent his formative years in the Philippines and then the USA. He later went to the Universities of Toronto and Texas. In 1992, he was offered the opportunity to excavate as part of the Archaeological Survey of India's excavation at the 5000-year-old Harappan Civilization city of Dholavira.