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.

Alok Prasanna Kumar is Co-Founder and Lead, Vidhi Karnataka. 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.

NBN Episodes hosted by Alok Prasanna and:

Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)

September 30, 2023

Court on Trial

Aparna Chandra

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…

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

September 27, 2023

Platformization and Informality

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws
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In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ja…

Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)

March 13, 2023

The Progressive Maharaja

Rahul Sagar

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…

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

February 3, 2023

Claiming the State

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and so…

M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

January 30, 2023

Last Among Equals

M. R. Sharan

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. H…

Rukmini S. "Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India" (Context, 2022)

January 29, 2023

Whole Numbers and Half Truths

Rukmini S.

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…

Arvind Narrain, "India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance" (Context, 2022)

November 10, 2022

India's Undeclared Emergency

Arvind Narrain

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…

Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)

September 27, 2022

The Great Repression

Chitranshul Sinha

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…

Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy" (Rupa Publications, 2019)

September 20, 2022

The Networked Public

Amber Sinha

Amber Sinha works at the intersection law, technology and society, and studies the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and str…

Rohan J. Alva, "Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India" (Harper Collins, 2022)

September 19, 2022

Liberty After Freedom

Rohan J. Alva

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…