This website is created by Anant Shrivastava and is effectively his personal attempt to understand the origins of Hacking Culture in India.
At this point the focus is on finding the individuals who started putting Hacking Knowledge out in open by means of:
- Conference Talks
- Tools
- Whitepapers
- Books
I am trying to keep the Indexing clean and usable. I will prefer to keep data front and center so minimal details about hackers but more cronological events
First Focus is to dig into the Cyber Security Space and once that is documented we can look at other aspects including but not limited to Linux User groups, FOSS or IT groups in general.
Related Projects
Hackers of India is a related project that focuses on the people in the Indian security community with a different approach - featuring photos and personal stories. While we share similar goals of documenting Indian hackers, the projects are independently maintained. For more on how their approach differs, see their explanation .
Note: Hacking Archives of India and Hackers of India are sister projects with complementary goals but are not run by the same team. This archive focuses on technical contributions (talks, tools, papers) while Hackers of India focuses on the people themselves.
Profile Details
Initial Plan was to keep a minimal profile of Indian hackers and specially the indian connection (are they someone born in india but went abroad after education or someone who is still operating in india). As I moved for more then 100+ individuals it was quickly clear that I will not be able to maintain such huge dataset so I do keep some notes about the indian connection internally but not maintaining detailed profile. Only following social media profiles are linked in profile:
- personal website
- github
- gitlab
Contributors
This effort would not have reached its current position without the direct support of following contributors
Supporters
The following community members have helped improve the archive by submitting missing data:
| # | Name | Contributions | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kushal Shah | 10 | 2026-02 |
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