Aniket is a historian of the Himalayas who has also been a journalist, editor. His book, Becoming India: Western Himalayas Under British Rule (Cambridge University Press, Delhi, 2008) was based on oral as well as textual sources. He is interested in the overlaps between orality and literacy and the manner in which oral sources of history are being radically changed in our textual world. He has been teaching history at IIIT Hyderabad and is keen to bring digital methods and tools to the study of the past.