Dr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta is a trained archival expert with over five years of professional experience. He holds a Diploma in Archives and Record Management from the National Archives of India and has worked in significant roles across prestigious institutions, including the National Archives of India, the Department of Delhi Archives, and the History Division (MoD), New Delhi.
Passionate about promoting history and archival studies, Dr. Gupta is committed to facilitating the integration of diverse materials into structured archival, historical, and cultural contexts. He actively encourages multidisciplinary research approaches in these fields. In addition to his archival work, he has taught as a Visiting Faculty at NCWEB colleges, University of Delhi, where he offered courses in Archives and Museum Studies to undergraduate students.
An alumnus of Hindu College, University of Delhi, he holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and an MA in Modern Indian History. He was awarded an MPhil from the Department of History, Delhi University. His MPhil dissertation title was “Comics and Communalism in the Late Twentieth Century.” He then earned a PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His doctoral research, titled “The Rise of Comics, ‘Identities’, and the Creation of Desi Superheroes in ‘Indian’ Comics (1950–2016),” offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the evolution and transition of Indian comics.
Rajshree has a profound interest in various forms of IPR, including but not limited to International Intellectual Property and Policy and Copyright and Related Rights. She has taught IPR as a Guest Faculty at National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ).
Rajshree has graduated from the National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam. She earned her master’s degree in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) from National Law University, Jodhpur.
Her research focuses on Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions, and their relevance in the modern technological landscape. Additionally, she is passionate about exploring Performer’s Rights and Personality Rights within the realm of IPR.
Sadhana joined the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Research and Advocacy (CIPRA) at the University in March 2013. At the Centre, she maintains the accounts, and helps manage the centre’s website, along with collating the Centre’s activities with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. She works with the Centre Head, researchers, and resource persons for all programmes organised by the Centre.
She also assists the Academic Administration Department at NLSIU.
Previously, she worked as a data entry operator and QC reader at Envisage solutions and Coals solutions, Bangalore; as a Customer Care officer/Receptionist with Sterling Holiday Resorts, Bangalore; and as an Office Admin/accountant with Zhenkar Advertising, Bangalore.
Sadhana has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from the SJRC College for Women, Bengaluru.
Sharon completed her BA LLB (Honors in English) from Panjab University, Chandigarh and LLM in Criminal Law from Army Institute of Law, Mohali, Punjab. Besides qualifying the UGC-NET, she holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology, Law and Policy from Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat and a Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.
As a Project Associate, she currently works under Dr. Mrinal Satish on the Bengaluru Safe City Police Training Programme. She is also a PhD scholar at NLSIU. Her area of research primarily focuses on analysing State power under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 through a constitutional perspective. Prior to joining NLSIU, she was with the Officers Training Academy, Chennai.
A native of Chandigarh, Sharon has actively participated in activities concerning social welfare in her hometown. Her hobbies include sketching, cooking, driving and running. She also enjoys debating and essay writing.
Shashikala’s career in education and child welfare began in August 2010 when she joined the Centre for Child and the Law at NLSIU as an Assistant Village Education Coordinator under the Universalization of School Education initiative. During her tenure from 2010-2017 at CCL, she worked on implementing educational projects, particularly focusing on the field extension office at Bidadi. In this role, Shashikala worked with the School Development and Monitoring Committees (SDMCs) and Bala Vikasa Samithi, and helped organise Anganwadi training sessions. She was also involved in regular meetings and initiatives such as Shikshana Grama Shaba, Makasa Meetings, Samudhayadatha Shale, and monthly gatherings at schools and Anganwadis, ensuring effective community participation and development.
Currently, Shashikala has joined the CRY Project as a Trainer, where she will bring her extensive experience in educational development and community mobilisation to enhance training programmes. Her strong background in coordinating education projects and her expertise in fostering collaboration among local stakeholders will contribute significantly to the success of the CRY Project’s objectives. With a deep commitment to child welfare and educational equity, Shashikala continues to work towards creating sustainable and inclusive educational environments for children and communities.
Shashikala has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore.
Shruthi Nair has previously worked as a Research Associate in Strategic Relations at the Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi, on funding and strategic relations. She completed her B.A. LL.B., (Hons.) from the School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore, in 2022.
Shubham Shinde graduated as a Computer Science engineer and has worked as a software engineer with a US based investment management firm. He has also previously worked with the Government Of Punjab, helping digitise internal processes and also led technology policy research at Pacta, a Bangalore based law firm and think tank. His interest in leveraging technology for the benefit of society and governance led him to pursue Master’s in Public Policy from the Kautilya School of Public Policy.
Aiming to build on his masters thesis on the “Problems in Software patents and their impact on innovation”, he joined NLSIU as a Research Associate for the Open Source Software (OSS) project that aims to study the economic value addition and impetus to innovation provided by OSS.
Siddharth is an aspiring queer historian based out of Bangalore. They have a master’s degree from Université Grenoble-Alpes with a specialisation in the queer history of Bangalore and Social Movement Theory. Their dissertation is titled Coalescing Queer Communities: LGBTQIA+ Mobilisation in Bangalore, 1994 – 2009. At the archive, they have catalogued and created finding aids for collections, translated and transcribed, trained volunteers, and undertaken research projects on archival ethics.
Their areas of academic curiosity include critical geography, human rights, postcolonial and subaltern studies, literature, culinary ethnography and the philosophy of science.
Siddharth is a writer and digital policy consultant whose work focuses on the regulation of digital systems, their interaction with users, and the technical bases and tools underpinning them. His past research and consultancy work in public policy has dealt with subjects including net neutrality, platform regulation, data governance, and the role of data in influencing the impact of digital systems.
He is interested in using his public policy experience and technical understanding to translate policy positions in digital regulation into usable codes and tools in the technology value chain. He retains an interest in topics related to digital competition, human-computer interaction, and bodied human performance in digital spaces.
Siddharth joined NLSIU as a research associate in June 2024 where he worked on the Project on Exploring Digital Transformation of India’s Consumer Grievance Redressal System through GenAI till April 2025.
He has a BA LLB degree from National Law University, Delhi and was awarded a grant from the foreign development office of the UK to pursue an MSc in Responsible Data Science at the University of Birmingham. Here he studied legal and ethical questions around the usage of data and databases, and their divergent social impact when deployed in public-facing contexts, alongside technical training in working with databases.
He works in theatre and performance arts outside of research consulting and enjoys studying film.
