Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry.

[1] He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra near the Kabootar Khana in Dadar but grew up in New Delhi.

He then joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he pursued a five-years integrated Master’s programme in Mathematics and graduated in 1982.

Paranjape is also involved in the promotion of Linux and GNU[3] and writes a blog titled Mast Kalandar.

He has made highly significant contributions in connecting Hodge Theory to the study of Chow Groups.