Swabhiman Jayant Patil
National Law School of India University, Bengaluru Swabhiman Jayant Patil hails from the small village of Kurdu in the Solapur district of Maharashtra. His family consists of his parents and elder sister, who have always valued the power of education. His father, a farmer, is actively involved in social initiatives and serves as an organizer […]
Mayank Kumar
NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad Mayank comes from Ushraha, a village in the district of Khagaria in Bihar. He is currently in his final semester of his law school at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He recently has secured placement with Nishith Desai Associates in their Investment Funds team, which he will be joining in […]
Loveneesh Dhakad
National Law Institute University, Bhopal Loveneesh hails from Dupariya, a small village in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh and is currently a student at National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He lost his father in 2010 and currently his mother and two sisters are there in the family. His mother is a homemaker. The family relies on only […]
Ratan Ram
West Bengal Nat’l Univ. of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata Ratan comes from a small village where the shadows of caste-based discrimination and systemic inequality still loom large. A member of the Scheduled Caste community, Ratan is the son of a farmer whose annual income is ₹90,000. Neither of his parents had the opportunity to attend college, […]
Rishiraj Chandan
National Law University, Delhi Rishiraj, a cheerful and ambitious young man from the Banka district of Bihar, brings infectious energy to those around him. Hailing from one of the most underdeveloped districts in terms of educational infrastructure, he completed his 10th standard from Simaria with a perfect CGPA of 10 and his 12th standard from […]
Gyanesh Mishra
National Law University, Odisha Gyanesh Mishra belongs to Madhupur, a city in Deoghar district of Jharkhand. He completed his 10th standard education from Carmel School, Madhupur, scoring an aggregate of 88% and his 12th standard from Mount Litera Zee School, Deoghar. He topped his school in the 12th standard with an aggregate score of 92% in […]
Mrudula Manoj
Nat’l Univ.of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi Mrudula, a native of Wayanad district in Kerala, belongs to the Kattunayakan tribe (a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group) and falls under the Below Poverty Line category. She is the eldest among the children in her family and has two younger siblings – a sister in the 8th grade and […]
Anmol Raj
National Law University, Jodhpur Anmol Raj hails from Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh. His father works as a sweeper at the Gram Panchayat and supported their family of four with a monthly salary of about Rs. 32,000 when Anmol joined IDIA. Life was not easy for Anmol. He was born with a defect in his left […]
Sumyya
Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow Sumyya, our fifth-year IDIA Scholar at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow, is specialising in international law, driven by a deep curiosity about how legal systems shape and are shaped by the societies they govern. This interest also guides her in developing the National Accessibility […]
Intisar Alam
Nat’nl Univ. of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi Intisar, a resident of Lucknow, is a bright and hardworking IDIA Scholar who has faced many difficult circumstances in his life. His father passed away due to a brain hemorrhage in 2010, and just a year later, his mother too passed away after battling blood cancer. […]