The son of a schoolteacher, Binanda Barkakaty was born in Assam, India. He left India in 1966 and came to the United Kingdom for higher studies, and he has been in England ever since. He graduated ...view moreThe son of a schoolteacher, Binanda Barkakaty was born in Assam, India. He left India in 1966 and came to the United Kingdom for higher studies, and he has been in England ever since. He graduated from Guwahati University, Assam, with a gold medal in physics. He has a PhD from Leeds, an MEd from London, and an MSt from the University of Cambridge. He has been running Christian union in schools and colleges and involved in Christian fellowship and providing Bible courses to prisoners in a prison-education setting. He has been walking with the Lord for more than four decades and has been a worshipper at Sanderstead Evangelical Church since 1982.
He married his wife, Puspa, from Singapore, in 1970. His daughter, Santana, lives with her husband, Mark, and two sons, Cade (twelve) and Bailey (ten), in Chippenham, Wiltshire. His son, Biraj, is an opera singer as a countertenor and lives in Astoria, New York City, with his wife, Heather, who is soprano.
Since his wife passed away in May 2014, Binanda lives on his own in suburban London.view less