Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, in a highly educated family, Jishnu migrated to the United States in the early nineties. Currently he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife and two sons. Jishnu is also the grandson of Jatindranath Sengupta, a famous Bengali poet.

Jishnu is an economist. He has also been pursuing his passions in the arts relentlessly since his college. He enjoys recitation, performing in stage plays, audio plays and audio-visual plays. An avid nature lover, sometimes Jishnu writes poems and recently has been brushing up on his old hobby, sketching and painting.