Anand Parthasarathy is a graduate in Instrumentation and Control from Poona University (India) and did his Masters degree in Systems Engineering at Birmingham University (UK.) specializing in Underwater Systems.

He has served for over 20 years with the (Indian) Defence Research and Development Organisation, including a stint at the Naval Laboratory in Cochin (NPOL); where he headed the DRDO-Cochin University Computer Centre.

He moved to Hyderabad where he was part of the formation team of Anurag, the DRDO Parallel Processing Lab and later joined the Indian Missile Programme where he served for 7 years as Systems Manager for surface to air missiles.

In 1994 he became the IT Correspondent of "The Hindu" daily and is currently its Consulting Editor (Information Technology).

He is also a technical adviser to the KINFRA Film and Video Park, an enterprise of the Kerala Industial Infrastructure Corporation, Trivandrum

He is a life member of the Computer Society of India.

In 1999, Parthasarathy became the first recipient of the "Polestar" Award for "IT Journalist of the Year" in a nationally conducted poll In India.

In 2003 he was selected for the first International PANOS-GKP Media Award given jointly by the London based environmental agency PANOS and the Malaysia-based Global Knowledge Partnership for his coverage of the Kerala e-literacy programme in The Hindu and received the award at the first UN-sponsored global Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).