Members of the India Regional Team

The Regional Teams of the Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme are country-based groups of academics and practitioners defining the objectives and the content of the programme. The team is led by the regional coordinator and her/his institution as the core partner of Hivos and Kosmopolis. For India this is the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) in Bangalore.

The members of the PP India Regional Team are:
1. CSCS
Sitharamam Kakarala (Coordinator)
Shahrukh Alam (Research Fellow)
Lakshmi Arya (Research Fellow)
Serene Kasim (Reserach Fellow)

2. Hivos Regional Office
Jamuna Ramakrishna (Director)
Rajendran Nathan (Programme Officer)

3. Partner Organisations/Consultants
Khalid Ansari (Ethnographies of Faith and Fundamentalism)
Somnath Vatsa (Pluralism and Human Rights—Gujarat)
Arvind Narrain (Pluralism and Human Rights—Gujarat)
V.S. Elizabeth (NLSIU) (History of Freedom of Conscience & the issue of conversions)

4. Invited Activists/Scholars
Ghanshyam Shah (Academic and Activist, Ahmedabad)
Mihir Desai (Senior Lawyer and Activist, Mumbai)
Flavia Agnes (Senior Lawyer, Majlis, Mumbai)
Ajit Muruken ( VAK, Mumbai)
Lancy Lobo (Director, Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara)
Lawrence Surendra (Independent scholar and activist)