Our Team

AARTI MUNDKUR : Aarti has an LLB from Bangalore University (2008) and an M.A. in Social Work Department of Urban and Rural Community Development. She has been with the organization since May, 2001.  Her primary area of interest is issues related to urban poor and gender litigation. Email: aarti@altlawforum.org

ANUJA MIRCHANDANEY : Anuja a graduate from NLS started volunteering with ALF in November, 2001. She now works formally with the organization. Prior to this she worked with law practices in Bangalore and Delhi. She has provided assistance in litigation and alternative dispute resolution and also involved in rights awareness programmes that ALF has been asked to do.  Her primary interest is in legal writing, specifically on socio-legal issues. Email: anuja@altlawforum.org

ARVIND NARRAIN : A founder member of ALF, Arvind has done a bachelor_ s in law from NLSIU followed by a masters in the University of Warwick on a Chevening scholarships. After two years spent at the NLSIU Centre for the Child and the Law where he was actively involved in working on child rights and juvenile justice. He also taught courses at the NLSIU on human rights law and ideology, ethnic conflict, law; poverty and development. Arvind now works full time at ALF dividing his time between litigation on the criminal side and research and advocacy on sexuality and minority related issues. Email: arvind@altlawforum.org

BYATHA N JAGADEESHA: Jagadeesha is from rural Bangalore did his B.A. at SJRC College Bangalore and then LLB at V.V.PURAM College of Law Bangalore, areas of intrest are Human rights related Litigation. He is alo involved with legal awareness to the common people with respect to their rights and duties under the Law. Email: jagadeesh@altlawforum.org.

CLIFTON D' ROZARIO : Clifton has a LLB from Bangalore University (2008) and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. His areas of interest include caste politics and labour rights. Clifton is also involved with working with a number of groups in the informal sector. Email: clifton@altlawforum.org

JITI NICHANI: Jiti graduated with a Political Science (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, and went on to further complete a LLB degree from the University of Warwick, England. Her focus areas are gender and the law, mechanics of juvenile justice, environment and everyday practice of intellectual property. Alongside this, she is also interested in mediation, dispute resolution and the politics of urban planning. Email: jiti@altlawforum.org

LAWRENCE LIANG : Lawrence, a graduate form National Law School subsequently pursued his Masters degree in Warwick, England on a Chevening Scholarship. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture, the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. A keen follower of the open source movement in software, Lawrence has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain. Email: lawrence@altlawforum.org

MANORANJINI THOMAS KUNDAL: Manoranjini graduated BA LLB from Gulbarga university, Karnakata and joined ALF in May 2005. She works with the litigation team and works on issues relating to children specially research on chlid marriage and child marriage related matters,supporting sex workers rights and other development issues, working to provide legal support to the powrakarmika union and is also keenly interested in Dalit issues. Email:

MAITREYI KRISHNAN: Maitreyi graduated from ILS Law College, Pune and works with the litigation team at ALF. She is interested in understanding labour conditions, particularly in the unorganized sector and looks to provide legal support to the Domestic Workers Union and Powrakarmika's Union. Email: maitreyi@altlawforum.org

NAMITA MALHOTRA: Namita, a graduate of the National Law School has a keen interest in pushing the relationship between law and media at ALF. She has been a part of a number of experiments which tries to look at the critical and aesthetic possibilities between law and new media. Email:namita@altlawforum.org

SIDDHARTH NARRAIN: Siddharth has graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. His areas of interest include issues related to gender and sexuality, media laws and censorship, and the politics of the judiciary. He has worked as a journalist for Frontline Magazine and The Hindu newspaper in New Delhi. Email: sid@altlawforum.org

USHA R: Usha holds  diploma in Library Science from SJP Women's Polytechnic, Bangalore. She is in charge of the ALF library. Email: usha@altlawforum.org