A joint effort between lawyers, journalists, and academics, Article 14 provides intensive research and reportage, data and varied perspectives—either by way of commissioned research projects or indepth investigations—on issues necessary to safeguard democracy and the rule of law. We meld academic and legal rigour with journalistic flair and storytelling. We keep people at the centre of our work, connecting their stories to the operation of the justice system and chronicling efforts that harness the law to keep India’s democracy vibrant and robust.

APARNA CHANDRA
Associate Professor, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Works on constitutional law, human rights, gender and the law, empirical legal studies, and judicial process reform; holds law degrees from NLSIU, Bangalore & Yale Law School in the US.

BETWA SHARMA
Managing Editor of Article 14. Previously politics editor at HuffPost India and New York/United Nations correspondent for the Press Trust of India. Reported from Afghanistan, Egypt, Guantanamo Bay, Haiti, India, Ireland, Morocco, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, and the United States. Work in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Intercept, Guardian, Time.com, Al Jazeera (English), The Christian Science Monitor, and The Columbia Journalism Review.

CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY
Multimedia journalist and researcher focussing on rural, in particular tribal, communities, and issues of environmental and social justice. Cited for the Sanskriti Award, the Press Council of India's National Award for Investigative Reporting and the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize twice. Graduate of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at Columbia University and a Knight Journalism Fellow.

KAVITHA IYER
A journalist for 23 years, with stints at The Indian Express, Firstpost and DNA. Writes on rural India, marginalised communities and gender. Author of Landscapes of Loss: The Story Of An Indian Drought, an award-winning book on India’s farm crisis. Logan Nonfiction Fellow based in Mumbai.

LUBHYATHI RANGARAJAN
Editor-Databases, graduated in law in 2010 from Symbiosis Law School Pune and has a Masters in Law from the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. She was a founding member at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi. She was on Forbes India's 30 under 30 list for her work in criminal justice and a TEDx speaker.

MANOJ MITTA
Author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India, The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra, and When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and Its Aftermath. Law graduate from Hyderabad. Based in New Delhi, focuses on law, human rights and social justice.

MOHSIN ALAM BHAT
Teaches public law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London; law degrees from NALSAR, Hyderabad, & Yale Law School. Areas of research include constitutional law and theory, minority rights, law and religion, and democracy and the rule of law.

NIKITA SONAVANE
Legal researcher and advocate for five years. Co-founder of the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPAProject) a Bhopal-based litigation and research intervention focused on building accountability against criminalisation of oppressed caste communities by the Police and the criminal justice system. Previously worked on issues of local governance, forest rights, and gender in Gujarat. Visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford working on anti-discrimination law in India. Writes at the intersection of policing, caste and digitisation of the criminal justice system in India. Published by the AI Now Institute at NYU, The Indian Express, The Hindu, Caravan, among others.

PRIYA RAMANI
Columnist at BQ Prime and The Hindu. Co-founder of India Love Project. Journalist, editor, commentator. Stints as equities reporter for Reuters, editor of Cosmopolitan and nearly a decade as one of the founding editors of Mint. Held senior editorial positions at Elle, The Indian Express and digital first publishing startup Juggernaut.

SAMAR HALARNKAR
Founder editor of Article 14. Columnist at Scroll and Mint. Former editor, IndiaSpend and Factchecker. Former managing editor, Hindustan Times. A former editor and reporter at India Today and Indian Express. Fellowships at the Nieman Foundation, Harvard University, and the University of California-Berkeley. National Investigative Journalism Award, 2018, from Asian College of Journalism.

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