Room 019, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Ahmedabad University
Justice Pankaj Naqvi was a lawyer for 26 years before he became a judge of the Allahabad High Court in 2011. He has given landmark judgements on free speech, liberty, human dignity and privacy. He is remembered for his active association with SAYHOG, a group that works for women in distress on account of domestic violence. Justice Naqvi has recently been appointed as the administrator of the Judo Federation of India by the Delhi High Court and designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court of India. He is a trained mediator and an empanelled arbitrator with multiple National Arbitral Institutions; he firmly believes that the litigation explosion in this country can only be addressed if Alternate Dispute Resolutions (ADR) options are widely promoted.
Professor Sarthak Bagchi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Professor Bagchi’s research focuses on Clientelism and Patronage Politics, Comparative Politics, Indian State Politics, Populism, and Informal and Identity Politics. Professor Bagchi has worked with KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Leiden and Göttingen University, Germany as a researcher and post-doctoral researcher, respectively. He also writes on politics for general audiences.
