Arun Sarkar

As country manager, my role involved processing consumer grievances, update data pools and coordinate between other teams in the project.

Worked as a Studentische Hilfskraft assistant at Departments of Asien-Afrika Institute and Centre of Manuscript studies, University of Hamburg digitizing manuscripts and involved in processes of scanning and cataloguing digital material/editions.

• Responsible for reviewing the legal framework on women’s property acquisition and ownership in Karnataka, India. • Drafted a legal literacy brochure, which will be used by the project to disseminate information to organizations working on women’s rights and empowerment in the State of Karnataka, India.

• Worked closely with State Human Rights Commission in documenting human rights violations in State prisons. • Facilitated Rights Awareness Camps in economically underdeveloped zones in South Chennai. Guided over 50 people on filing Right to Information/Public Interest Litigation requests to government agencies in order to seek accountability on key issues such as subsidised food, kerosene, public goods etc.

Language, Literature, Religion, and Philosophy

Received firsts in Sanskrit and for a written dissertation.

Indian Economic History, American History & Cultural Studies, German, Business Statistics, Math., Public Finance & Taxation, Indian Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Operations Research.