He was “Fox Fellow (2008-09)” at Yale University and, more recently, was selected as a ‘China India Scholar Leader’ for 2017-19 by the India China Institute at the New School, New York (one of eight, chosen globally). He was also recipient of the inaugural “Centenary Visiting Fellowship” (nominated award) at SOAS, University of London in 2013. Dr Karackattu is also an Editor with H-ASIA (part of Humanities and Social Sciences Online, based at Michigan State University). He studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and International Relations at JNU. He has been teaching at the Humanities and Social Sciences department at IIT Madras since 2013.