Co-founder, Veeraa. Backing grassroots leaders challenging social norms and power structures. Skeptical of social impact theatre.
Bengaluru, India
Joined July 2017
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Glimpses from our time with Khairunnisha Pathan and the team at Parwaz Sanstha, Juhapura, Ahmedabad, where girls are staying in school and imagining futures on their own terms.
Learn more at veeraa.org
Folks in Delhi, join Sonakshi and me for Veeraa's first-ever community meet up!
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Meet Shabnam Begum and Kuldeep Baudh, grassroots leaders working for justice in rural Uttar Pradesh.
Join their virtual session on 23rd or 27th September. Ask your questions directly.
Sign up using the link in the bio.
Learn more about their work on veeraa.org.
Four years back, I left @IDinsight to make a new beginning. But with no specific opportunity or plan. Many thought it was strange. I never explained why.
The truth: I realised the technocratic dev sector I worked in was dodging the questions that mattered to me.
Today, I work with grassroots leaders who take on the hard questions I once avoided.
One fights against the age-old practice of caste-based sex-work.
Another takes on local corrupt officials.
A third stands with tribal women who have been trafficked or assaulted.
We are Veeraa (@veeraadotorg), a giving platform to amplify the impact of these leaders.
And I have chosen a different lane: from being answerable to Govt Secretaries and non-profit CEOs (as inspiring as many of them are) to being accountable to grassroots leaders.
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After more than two-years of Padyatra through thousands of villages and small towns of Bihar, we formally started the process of party formation to give a better alternative that would end decades of misery and ensure a better future for the children of #Bihar
Yesterday, the process began with the first of the eight office bearers’ convention before the official launch of the party on Oct 02nd.
Over the next two months 1.5 lakh Jan Suraaj office bearers together with lacs of participating “Sansthapak Sadasyas” of #JanSuraaj will deliberate, and decide on the key priorities of the party; draft and finalize a party constitution, and finally ELECT the leader(s) of the party.
As promised, I will not be seeking any post in the party and will continue with my grassroots outreach for the next many months.
And it all began with the prayer chosen by the people here in an online survey!
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Our youth leader network of 22K+ is federated at the block-level where we currently have 400+ elected Block Coordinators (प्रखंड संयोजक).
A few weeks back, we had the first state-level meeting of our Block Coordinators in Patna.
Our youth leader network of 22K+ is federated at the block-level where we currently have 400+ elected Block Coordinators (प्रखंड संयोजक).
A few weeks back, we had the first state-level meeting of our Block Coordinators in Patna.
📣 📣 Youth Club Elections 📣 📣
Jan Suraaj's network of 22K+ youth leaders are federated at the block level, for which they elect Block Coordinators.
Here's a scene from one such election held recently in Khagaria, Bihar.
The elections are fully run by the padyatris who travel and organise the padyatra. They have been walking shoulder to shoulder with Prashant Kishor for the last 16+ months. These include Santosh, Abhishek NS, Om Prakash, Vishwajeet, Ram, Shams, Abhishek A and many others.
Career update! Recently I joined as CEO of Jan Suraaj Foundation with a mission to develop & empower progressive youth leaders.
With @PrashantKishor's guidance and the energy of our 20K+ youth network in Bihar, I hope to build a powerful platform for Jan Suraaj's youth leaders.
Our values are based on Gandhi’s life and his message of ahimsa, satya and sarvodaya.
We are also inspired by Ambedkar’s call for equality and justice.
Our work is guided by India’s democratic and constitutional values, the basis of people-led good governance, i.e. Jan Suraaj.