Mayank Chhaya is an Indian journalist based in Chicago.^[1][2] His career includes extensive reporting experience out of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United States. He is a widely published commentator on South Asian and China–Tibet affairs. Since 1998 he has also been writing extensively about America in the wider international context.

Chhaya is involved in shooting and editing Gandhi's Song, a feature-length documentary about the life and times of Narsinh Mehta, a 15th-century Indian poet-philosopher whose writings profoundly influenced Mohandas Gandhi. One of Mehta's songs, "Vaishnav Jan To", was Gandhi's moral guiding force throughout his life.^{[citation needed]}

• Dalai Lama: The Revealing Life Story and His Struggle for Tibet, I.B.Tauris, 2008, ISBN 9780857711953

• Official website
• Swachcha Bhai, a comedy short film written by Mayank Chhaya