[1] He won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2022 for his travel memoir Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau.
[2] After Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, he is the second writer from Jharkhand to win the Yuva Puraskar award in English language.
[3] Tales of Hazaribagh received critical acclaim upon publication and was ranked among the top non-fiction books in 2021.
[4] Vatsa is an alumnus of DAV Public School, Canary Hill Road, Hazaribag.
In 2015, Vatsa was awarded the Charles Wallace Writing Fellowship at the University of Stirling, UK.