Debarun Sarkar (b. 1992) was born in Ranchi, in what was then Bihar. He grew up in Surat and has lived for significant periods in Kolkata, New Town, Mumbai, Yelahanka and Electronic City in Bengaluru, Secunderabad and Tellapur in Hyderabad, and in Leikanger. He is currently halting in Bergen.
He works as a knowledge worker in the knowledge production industry. To that end, he received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Mumbai in 2024 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Culture with the ALGOFOLK project at the University of Bergen.