Our Team
Akshara is a researcher and professional overthinker. At PC-PIC, she works across research, documentation, reports, and communications. She is interested in governance, evidence, the distance between policy on paper and people’s lives in practice, and what happens when institutional logic encounters an actual human being. Firmly of the view that documents should have page numbers, she is less fond of jargon and unnecessary meetings. But quite fond of well-placed commas and firmly opposed to using twelve words where six will do.
Aparajitha is a long-time student of politics, interested in experimenting at the intersection of theory and praxis. Her research explorations move across feminist literature, people’s cultural politics, material history, and critical caste studies. She has a particular talent for getting waylaid by long, winding sentences. She considers herself firmly part of the oral history tradition, where animated conversations over chai come considerably more easily than writing a paper
Vijayan MJ
Evita Das
Nandana Hareesh – Nandana is a photographer and researcher trying to understand cities, one layer at a time. Her mind runs on thoughts, questionable memory, and a never-ending collection of chits. She is at her best with her camera in her hands. Things begin to make sense. The world comes into focus even if she doesn’t.
People’s Commissioners
Justice B Chandra Kumar
Justice G Chakradhar Rao – Retired Principal District and Sessions Judge, Andhra Pradesh Judiciary.
Abdur Rahman — Chairperson of Behat Nagar Panchayat, Uttar Pradesh, and an elected independent candidate.
Abhinandita Dayal Mathur — Journalist, photographer and researcher, with extensive work across media, culture and public life.
Abirami Jotheeswaran — Dalit rights activist and General Secretary of AIDMAM.
Ajoy Ashirvad — Political Affairs Editor at The Wire, a New Delhi-based news platform
Akash Bhattacharya — Historian and trade union leader associated with AICCTU.
Akhila Sivadas — Development professional, researcher, and communication and advocacy expert.
Aloka Kujur — Human rights and tribal rights leader associated with Adivasi Adhikar Manch.
Aman — Supreme Court advocate working on human rights issues.
Amit Sengupta — Independent journalist, writer, editor and teacher.
Amrita Johri — Member of Satark Nagrik Sangathan and part of the Right to Information and Right to Food campaigns.
Anita Rampal — Professor and educationist, former Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Delhi.
Annie Raja — Political activist and senior leader of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).
Arun Mohan — Filmmaker associated with The Media Collective.
Asha Unnithan — Advocate and human rights defender.
Avinash Kumar — Writer, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Equity Studies and National Co-convenor of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan.
Bandeep Dutta — Child rights and education advocate working on inclusive and equitable learning systems.
Bhasha Singh — Independent Journalist
Brahmaprakash — writer, cultural theorist and an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU.
Clifton D’Rozario — Advocate and trade union leader, National Secretary of AICCTU.
Fawaz — Supreme Court advocate with a focus on human rights, legal education, and building paralegal networks.
Grijesh Dinkar — Lawyer and researcher associated with NCDHR–National Dalit Watch (NDW), focusing on rights and justice for Dalit communities.
Iqra Hasan — Member of Parliament from Kairana, Uttar Pradesh, and Samajwadi Party leader.
Indira Unninayar — Advocate working with marginalised communities through the law.
Indu Prakash — Human rights defender and advocate for the rights of urban communities.
Innayat Kakkar — Civil liberties campaigner.
Jan Nisar Chaudhary — Advocate working with marginalised and oppressed communities, with a long association with Van Gujjars.
Jesu Rethinam – Lawyer and activist. She is the Global Women Coordinator of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples.
Jyoti Laxmi — Associated with Satat Sampad, working on issues faced by street vendors and hawkers.
K Muthyam Reddy – Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad.
Kamala Upadhyaya — General Secretary of ASoJ.
Kazmi — Advocate.
Koninika Ray — Human rights activist, biomedical researcher and member of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava — Journalist, founder of Land Conflict Watch and co-founder of the Reporters’ Collective.
Lara Jesani — Advocate and member of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
Mata Dayal — Secretary and founding member of AIUFWP, with around five decades of work with Dalit and Adivasi communities on forest, land and human rights.
Munnilal — Labour leader and member of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP).
Nideesh J Villat — Senior Journalist and researcher based in Delhi, representing the All India Kisan Sabha.
Pallavi Kabde
Pamela Philipose — Journalist and researcher, former Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Feature Service and former Senior Associate Editor of The Indian Express.
Prakash Louis — Social scientist and researcher on marginalisation, rights and development policy.
Prasanna S — Supreme Court advocate, researcher and member of the Centre for Justice, Accountability and Rights (CJAR).
Rahul Choudhury — Advocate and founder of the Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment.
Rajesh Uppadhyay — Labour rights activist and convenor of the National Alliance for Labor Rights (NALR).
Rajneesh Gambhir — Secretary and founding member of AIUFWP, working with Tharu tribal communities in the Dudhwa National Park area on forest and land rights.
Rajendra Ravi — Founding member of People’s Resource Centre, with more than three decades of research on urban politics and sustainability.
Roma — General Secretary of the All India Union of Forest Working People, working on natural resource-based community rights.
Ramakrishna Tandel — Chairperson of the National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF).
Rita Manchanda — Writer and researcher on conflicts and peace-building in South Asia.
Ritu Priya — Public health academic and medical doctor, former professor at JNU’s Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health.
Ritwick Dutta — Lawyer and environmental rights practitioner.
Sanjay Parikh — Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, focusing on human rights and environmental law.
Saroj Paswan — Housing rights campaigner from Khori Gaon, advocating for his community following its displacement during COVID-19.
Seema Mathur — Professor at the University of Delhi and member of Ambedkarvadi Lekhak Sangh.
Shabnam Hashmi — Co-founder of Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD), working on social rights and human dignity.
Shyamala Mani — Environmental scientist working at the intersection of waste management and public health.
Sukumar Muralidharan — Senior journalist and media analyst.
Sundara Babu — Grassroots researcher and member of the Working Peoples’ Charter.
Syeda Hameed — Writer, social activist, and former member of the Planning Commission of India, focusing on education, health, and gender justice.
Tariq — Supreme Court advocate with experience in litigation, documentation, and advocacy on human rights violations.
Vandana Prasad — Medical doctor, community paediatrician, and public health professional with over two decades of experience in the social sector.
Venkata Rajaiah
Vinay Sagar
Umesh Babu