Our Team – Alternative Law Forum
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Our Team – Alternative Law Forum
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Profiles of Core Members:
Harikrishnan R
is a lawyer with a Master’s in Access to Justice from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He works as a litigator mainly representing clients in cases involving anti-discrimination, labour, constitutional, and family laws. His areas of interest include intersectional discrimination based on caste, class, sexuality and gender.
Email: harikrishnan@altlawforum.org
Manavi Atri
is a lawyer and researcher at ALF. Her areas of interest include anti-discrimination frameworks pertaining to gender and sexuality and Media Law.
Email: manavi@altlawforum.org
Mrudula V
is working as a full-time litigator at ALF. She graduated from Gujarat National Law University in 2017. Her focus areas primarily include litigation concerning rights of gender and sexual minorities, women, land rights of marginalised groups, institutional discrimination and criminal law.
Email: mrudula@altlawforum.org
Narasimhappa TV
is a lawyer and holds a Master in Social Work from Bangalore University. His focus is on child development, specific to nutrition with the ‘Right to Food’ and ‘Right to Education’. He also works along with Anganwadis, the urban homeless shelter in Bangalore, access to entitlements. He was recently appointed assistant advisor to the Supreme Court of India on the ‘Right to Food’ case.
Email: narasimha@altlawforum.org
Poorna Ravishankar
is a lawyer and researcher, whose focus area of studying has been the Indian Constitution. She also works on advocacy and litigation regarding matters of queer persons, sex workers, domestic violence, family law and women’s rights.
Email: poorna@altlawforum.org
Syeda Saba
is a full time litigator at ALF working on issues relating to women and children, and also actively works on advocacy and litigation for issues faced by sex workers.
Email: saba@altlawforum.org
Usha R.
holds a Bachelor degree in Library Science from KSOU. She has been with the organisation since June 2006. She is in charge of the ALF library.
Email: usha@altlawforum.org
Vinay K. Sreenivasa
’s areas of interests include Urban Transport, Urban Poverty, Informal Sector and Urban Governance. He has also been part of initiatives promoting Free and Open Source Software in the government. He holds an engineering degree and was in the IT industry till 2007.
Email: vinay@altlawforum.org
Aishwarya R.
is the Fundraising and Communications Coordinator at ALF.
Email: aishwarya@altlawforum.org
Governing Board
Arvind Narrain
Madhu Bhushan
Vinay Sreenivasa
Basawa Prasad Kunale
Poorna Ravishankar
Alternative Law Forum
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122/4 Infantry Road, Next to Balaji Art Gallery, Bangalore, India 560001 (Nearest bus stop: Shivajinagar)
Unless explicitly stated, all the material on this website can be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial India 2.5 license.
SUPPORT THE FIGHT TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES
Your contribution will help sustain our efforts in providing subsidised legal assistance and initiating and participating in advocacy efforts to realise the imagination of a society based on the tenets of the Constitution.
MAKE YOUR DONATION
In compliance with tax regulations, donations from Indian nationals are required to be collected separately.
If you are an Indian citizen and/or have an Indian passport, please click the following button to securely donate to ALF.
DONATE
NON-INDIAN CITIZENS
If you are not an Indian national and are interested to donate to ALF, please write to communications (at) altlawforum.org.
Our Team
Alternative Law Forum
>
About Us
>
Our Team
Our Team
Profiles of Core Members:
Harikrishnan R
is a lawyer with a Master’s in Access to Justice from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He works as a litigator mainly representing clients in cases involving anti-discrimination, labour, constitutional, and family laws. His areas of interest include intersectional discrimination based on caste, class, sexuality and gender.
Email: harikrishnan@altlawforum.org
Manavi Atri
is a lawyer and researcher at ALF. Her areas of interest include anti-discrimination frameworks pertaining to gender and sexuality and Media Law.
Email: manavi@altlawforum.org
Mrudula V
is working as a full-time litigator at ALF. She graduated from Gujarat National Law University in 2017. Her focus areas primarily include litigation concerning rights of gender and sexual minorities, women, land rights of marginalised groups, institutional discrimination and criminal law.
Email: mrudula@altlawforum.org
Narasimhappa TV
is a lawyer and holds a Master in Social Work from Bangalore University. His focus is on child development, specific to nutrition with the ‘Right to Food’ and ‘Right to Education’. He also works along with Anganwadis, the urban homeless shelter in Bangalore, access to entitlements. He was recently appointed assistant advisor to the Supreme Court of India on the ‘Right to Food’ case.
Email: narasimha@altlawforum.org
Poorna Ravishankar
is a lawyer and researcher, whose focus area of studying has been the Indian Constitution. She also works on advocacy and litigation regarding matters of queer persons, sex workers, domestic violence, family law and women’s rights.
Email: poorna@altlawforum.org
Syeda Saba
is a full time litigator at ALF working on issues relating to women and children, and also actively works on advocacy and litigation for issues faced by sex workers.
Email: saba@altlawforum.org
Usha R.
holds a Bachelor degree in Library Science from KSOU. She has been with the organisation since June 2006. She is in charge of the ALF library.
Email: usha@altlawforum.org
Vinay K. Sreenivasa
’s areas of interests include Urban Transport, Urban Poverty, Informal Sector and Urban Governance. He has also been part of initiatives promoting Free and Open Source Software in the government. He holds an engineering degree and was in the IT industry till 2007.
Email: vinay@altlawforum.org
Aishwarya R.
is the Fundraising and Communications Coordinator at ALF.
Email: aishwarya@altlawforum.org
Governing Board
Arvind Narrain
Madhu Bhushan
Vinay Sreenivasa
Basawa Prasad Kunale
Poorna Ravishankar
Alternative Law Forum
GET IN TOUCH:
122/4 Infantry Road, Next to Balaji Art Gallery, Bangalore, India 560001 (Nearest bus stop: Shivajinagar)
Unless explicitly stated, all the material on this website can be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial India 2.5 license.