Career
Jayasankar was born in Kochi, Kerala. He completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Maharaja's College, Kochi in 1973 and a master's degree in German studies from Department of Foreign Languages, Mumbai University, in 1982. He has done his Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, in 1991. He joined Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1986. He married his colleague Anjali Monteiro in 1989 and they have a daughter.
Jayasankar joined the Audio-Visual Unit, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, in 1986, which is now the School of Media and Cultural Studies. He has been a visiting faculty/scholar at several media and design schools and universities, in India and overseas, including University of Heidelberg, University of Technology, Sydney, Lund University, Sweden, Goldsmiths University, London and Lahti Institute of Design, Finland.
In 2007, he was involved, along with Anjali Monteiro, in setting up the MA in Media and Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. They have mentored and guided over 100 student and fellow documentary film projects. In recognition of their contribution to teaching, the National Institute of Design awarded them jointly with the Professor Satish Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film Education in 2022 [8] . Post-retirement, they continue to teach young people the art of documentary filmmaking [9] .
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