Born in Latur in 1973, He graduated in 1997 with a Government Diploma in Art (drawing & Painting) from Pune. He then got a diploma in 1998 in Art education from Sir J. J. School of Art. His paintings have teenaged cowhands stare out at the viewer with large innocent doe like eyes filled with hope. Anand also addresses the unexplored terrain as Sakhi - bhava, where young girls are bound by the sisterhood of a shared destiny. He also features the cow and the goat’s symbols of procreation, birth, sustenance and Godliness. He paints Durga as the mother Goddess.
