Born 14 December 1979 in a Bengali family, Basu grew up in Calcutta, where he studied at Don Bosco School, and later Presidency College, Kolkata, where he obtained a degree in Economics.
He dropped out of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to write The Simoqin Prophecies and then went on to complete a course in broadcasting and documentary film-making at the University of Westminster, London.
He gained worldwide presence with the metahuman duology, Turbulence and its sequel Resistance, a superhero novel set in India, Pakistan and England, published by Titan Books.
It also won a Wired Geekdad Goldenbot Award[6] and appeared at no.2 on the list of hot new Amazon Science Fiction titles on the week of its release.
Basu also co-wrote Untouchable (comics), a graphic novel with X-Men and Lucifer writer Mike Carey[7] and went on to write UnHoli, an episodic zombie comedy set in and around New Delhi.