Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian scholar in the area of grassroots innovations.
He retired as a full-time professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2017, where he served for about 36 years.
[6][7] Gupta has developed courses for students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
One of his most popular courses included Shodh Yatra, (meaning 'research walk'), under which he took management students to different parts of the country to learn from local communities and study their knowledge systems.
He is a Co-Ordinator of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiative for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions).