Vinay Suhalka is a social anthropologist by training with an interest in disability studies. His academic work seeks to use the insights of anthropology to understand how bodily impairment, as a phenomenon, is shaped by local and particular factors. He recently defended his doctoral thesis at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. Prior to his doctoral studies, he received his bachelors in Economics and masters in Social Work from Delhi University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, respectively. His doctoral work was situated at the intersection of the anthropology of disability and the anthropology of religion, where he inquired what questions of religion, faith, and belief looked like in the lives of those living with bodily impairments and disabilities. His postdoctoral work seeks to bridge disability studies and aging studies by exploring the aging experiences of people with disabilities. He has presented his work at national and international conferences. His growing academic interests include disability history and plant humanities. As part of his abiding interest in trees, he has conducted several tree walks and delivered talks exploring plant-human relationships from a humanities perspective. Prior to joining the doctoral program, he also worked as a faculty member in the Department of Social Work (Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer).

Currently, his academic work on disability and religion is under review in the TISS Journal of Disability Studies and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.