Prashant is an Associate Fellow at the East Asia Centre of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), in New Delhi. He obtained his MPhil and PhD from the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has been a recipient of the Centre for Chinese Studies (National Central Library) Grant for Foreign Scholars, the Taiwan Fellowship and the National Huayu Enrichment Scholarship.