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About Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
Alok Prasanna Kumar is Co-Founder and Lead, Vidhi Karnataka. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court and his areas of research include judicial reforms, Constitutional law, urban development, and law and technology. He graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the NALSAR University in 2008 and obtained the BCL from the University of Oxford in 2009. Sarayu Natarajan is the Founder of Aapti Institute. In the past, she has worked in management consulting and the venture fund industry before the plunge into researching politics. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from King's College London and a Master's in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Alok and Sarayu are also the co-hosts of the Ganatantra Podcast. Afrah Asif is a law student at NALSAR University of Law. Her interests range across criminal justice, community organizing, and reimaginative politics.NBN Episodes hosted by Alok Prasanna and:
September 30, 2023
Court on Trial
The Indian Supreme Court was established nearly seventy-five years ago as a core part of India's constitutional project. Does the Court live up to the…
September 27, 2023
Platformization and Informality
In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ja…
March 13, 2023
The Progressive Maharaja
Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Mad…
February 3, 2023
Claiming the State
Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and so…
January 30, 2023
Last Among Equals
M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. H…
January 29, 2023
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prospe…
November 10, 2022
India's Undeclared Emergency
Arvind Narrain is a lawyer and writer based in Bangalore. He is visiting faculty at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University. He is…
September 27, 2022
The Great Repression
Chitranshul Sinha is an advocate on record of the Supreme Court of India and a partner in Dua Associates, Advocates and Solicitors, who primarily prac…
September 20, 2022
The Networked Public
Amber Sinha works at the intersection law, technology and society, and studies the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and str…
September 19, 2022
Liberty After Freedom
Rohan J. Alva is a counsel practicing in the Supreme Court of India. He earned his LLM from Harvard Law School, where he focused on constitutional law…