Hello, I’m Sanjana!
I sit with the space between systems and people.
Most of my work lives there.
My work is grounded in lived experience and guided by a desire to make institutions more humane. Through policy analysis, classroom practice, and community initiatives, I’ve come to understand how difficult change can be when the structures themselves are misaligned with people’s realities. I’m interested in the slow, imperfect work of understanding these frameworks, and finding creative ways to make them work better for those within them.
WORK
TEACH FOR INDIA
As a Teach For India Fellow, I learn with and from my students. In the classroom, the gap between policy and lived experience becomes impossible to ignore. It is uncomfortable work, but being surrounded by people who continue to insist on something better has shown me that systems, even resistant ones, can be pushed to change.
KITAAB GHAR
Kitaab Ghar is a street library initiative I founded, as part of TFI’s Be The Change Project to bring books into everyday public spaces. It is rooted in the belief that reading for pleasure, curiosity, and joy should be accessible to everyone. Starting in marginalised neighbourhoods across Delhi, the project carries the hope of growing into many more places, in time.
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
During my internship at the Reserve Bank of India, I worked on a research project examining Priority Sector Lending in the NCT of Delhi. The work deepened my interest in how policy decisions made on paper shape access, opportunity, and everyday outcomes.
WRITING
I try to write.
I try to question.
Notes on policy, development and lived experience.
Read here.
