Sosale Chandrasekhar was born on 25 April 1952; he earned his MSc from IIT Bombay, his PhD from the University of London, and his Postdoc from Cambridge University, Max-Planck Institute and Muelheim/Ruhr, University of Montreal. He taught at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore since 1984, and as Professor from 2003 onwards, and retired in 2017. His research interests include synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry, stereochemistry and biological applications.