How Karnataka can set a model for rest of India by protecting transgender rights

Namrata is a Senior Resident Fellow in the Legal Design and Regulation Vertical at Vidhi. She primarily handles engaged and commissioned projects from various ministries, statutory authorities and regulators by providing legal research and legislative drafting support. At Vidhi, she has worked with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Consumer Affairs. Namrata also works extensively on queer rights and has initiated and worked on numerous projects on rights of gender and sexual minorities. She has written for the Hindu, the Firstpost, the Economic Times, the Leaflet, Article 14, Indian Express and Varta GenSex Policy Matters. Prior to Vidhi, Namrata taught at the Jindal Global Law School and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (‘NUJS’), worked with the Migration and Asylum Project on labour laws and policy, the Centre for Popular Democracy in New York City, and the Public Law and Vidhi Aid verticals at Vidhi. She has a BA/LLB from NUJS and a LLM from Columbia Law which she attended in the capacity of a Human Rights Fellow

Palomi Chaturvedi joined the Research Director’s Office at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy after graduating from Jindal Global Law School in 2025. Her academic and research interests cover arbitration, jurisprudence and tax law, as well as rigorous ethical inquiry to inform public policy and social outcomes. She believes in applying evidence-based approaches to guide impactful legal reforms and social change; her approach to ethics draws on consequentialist ideas. Beyond her professional interests, She is an avid strength trainer who enjoys outdoor activities like trekking, alongside a fascination for psychological and horror cinema.