Amartya Kumar Dutta obtained his PhD in Mathematics under Prof. S.M. Bhatwadekar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, in 1994, and has several research publications in Commutative Algebra and Affine Algebraic Geometry. A recipient of the INSA Teachers Award, Prof. Dutta has taught, mentored and guided several students since he joined ISI Kolkata as a faculty member in 1996. For the past 25 years, Prof. Dutta has also been regularly delivering lectures and writing articles on topics in the history of science, especially on ancient Indian mathematics. He is the recipient of the first Satish C Bhatnagar Award in History of Mathematics of the Indian Mathematical Society. Prof. Dutta has been teaching history of mathematics in ancient India and science in modern India in the one-year Indology course at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata.  From January 2022, Prof. Dutta has been writing serially on mathematics in India in the mathematics magazine, BhAvanA.