Anandita began her career as a curriculum developer and editor in school-books publishing and later with corporate organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers. Working with publishing houses gave her the first glimpses of how textbooks have been the sources of building stereotypes in children. Her work as a curriculum designer inspired her to take up the Teach for India fellowship.

As a Teach for India fellow, Anandita worked with secondary grades to realize that the problems children face in their growing up years affects their overall development. The idea of Alag Soch thus derives out of her primary experience as a child and her later experience as a teacher.

When Anandita is not working, she loves reading poetry, playing with her dog and indulging in socio-political debates and discussions. She is an idealist and resonates strongly in the power of empathy.

An MBA graduate with specialisation in Marketing from NMIMS, Mumbai, Shuvam in his current role overlooks the Digital, Communications and HR patch for Alag Soch. He is also responsible for liaising with outside collaborators for leveraging core competencies of different partners for achieving synergy and efficiency across the organization’s value chain.

As the recent-most addition to the team, Shuvam dapples his day job as a Strategy professional for a life insurance firm, while devoting his evenings wholly to Alag Soch.

On the personal front, Shuvam loves music, literature, and ‘adda’ – the three qualities that shape up the prototype of an ideal ‘bong boy’. If not found aligning elements on a slide and proof-reading content, Shuvam can be found curating his alter ego on Instagram, unwinding over Coke Studio, gorging on good food, and tripping on mood lighting.

Sohini is a Doctoral Fellow at IIT-Bombay, India. Her research interests are gender, development studies and cultural studies in India. She is also a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow 2020-21 at the University of Minnesota, USA.

While working towards her M.Phil. dissertation (2015- ‘17) with women school dropouts of West Bengal, Sohini grew more aware of the socio-politically diverse experiences of formal schooling. The narratives and her personal experiences in tutoring the children of the area drew Sohini’s attention to the inaccessibility and myopia of the existing school curricula.

Sohini is a bengali at heart who loves to drink her lebu cha (lemon tea) as much as she enjoys the adda alongside. She is a singer, a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and an avid reader of books by storytellers like Perumal Murugan and Amitav Ghosh.