BIO

I am a practising advocate in New Delhi at Ravindra Vikram Law Associates.  I am also a co-founder at Indian Center for Development and Rights (iCFDR). In free times  I like to travel and write on socio-economic issues. I have completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK, LLB from M.J.P. Rohilkand, Bareilly and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours (B.Com. Hons.) from the University of Delhi, New Delhi. I have had few stints in the corporate roles, apart for more than a decade in social work. I am interested in policymaking, governance, and humanitarian issues. In free time, I like to write on socio-economic issues.

Here is the Story behind it:

I am a practising lawyer in New Delhi, I have a general litigation practice and quasi-legal work. My motivation to take up the practice of law is a wide and growing interest in litigation, legal alternatives for dispute resolution and life-consuming efforts for social justice. Before my energies condensing in the practice of law full time at the bar and finding solace in the profession, I spent a decade in grassroots social activism and juggling between various corporate roles and part-time assignments. One of the crucial aspects of spending time in social spear is developing an understanding of the importance of a rules-based just society and the far-reaching consequences of taking the law into hands either by individuals or institutions.

Around high school, I started to become sensitized towards social issues and justice, coming from a very small town and getting schooled in bigger cities, it was easier to understand the disparity, inequality of opportunities and class differences with wide prism. It made me inclined to ponder on these diverse issues and various subtle impediments to justice for the aggrieved. Thus began a journey to volunteer with social organizations along with my studies and jobs. While doing my MBA in Glasgow, UK, I was socially active, being involved in raising funds for the earthquake victims in Japan, organizing solidarity protests in Glasgow for the anti-corruption movement in India, also active with Indian Diaspora there and interning with Global Human Rights Defense. Finally, with the aim of working on the rural-urban divide in India, I founded an NGO, Indian Centre for Development and Rights, currently working in a few slums communities, youth development through social work leadership programs, legal awareness, environment projects and children of sex workers. In 2014, as part of a the three-year assignment I spearheaded a team to establish a college, RPSS College, in the rural town of Dataganj in my home district Badaun, simultaneously, I completed the degree of Law. With such background, and with each passing year, the realization of the importance of the legal system and justice became clearer.

The eagerness to take the law seriously stems from this background, to get into more details, between my B.Com. Hons and MBA, I was volunteering with various organizations in Delhi, CFTI, Udayan Care, Greenpeace etc. I was keen to go back to villages to work for social change, hence with friends I had initiated few social experiments and unorganized organizations, People for Welling, Bharatiya Revolutionary Party – BRP, Bharat Uday etc, however of them had a slow and painful end. ​​Those were times when before Anna Anti Corruption movement, the advent of social entrepreneurship and influx of dominance of the internet in our life, and social work wasn't this popular/fashionable especially by young start-ups.

            After coming back from the UK, I again wasted no time to back to such work and was based in villages till the end of March 2012, when I took a call to restart and join back corporate for some time and moved to Mumbai. It was mainly due to experiences at village interactions, and inadequacy of methods to deal with them. Finally, once I had saved a bit and hitched myself out of second career break bankruptcy, I founded iCFDR, and finally, in 2014 I again came back to grassroots, till I was fully satisfied with my inertia to be spent force in rural India, and with learning, I moved back to Delhi. After, few assignments and more than the decade of cyclical behaviours pattern, I was convinced I would be more useful at policy making and from with top-down approach. 

              I feel this journey was important, to understand the variety and diversity of issues faced by society. One of another perk of the journey is in the meantime I backpacked across India, which has been very fulfilling in itself.

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