Founder · Grades 11 to 12

RE:Present Bharat

India's first youth-led civic engagement movement. It runs on three pillars: a digital platform where young people raise policy contentions, civic-awareness workshops, and youth parliaments.

  • Team60+ members
  • Country Ambassadors18 countries
  • State Ambassadors15+ states
  • Children engaged1,500+
  • Time~5 hrs/week

Youth parliaments

Hosted in Bangalore, Varanasi, Delhi and Jaipur. The inaugural Bengaluru parliament brought together 200+ students from government schools.

Students holding certificates on stage after a RE:Present Bharat youth parliament
Youth parliament
Youth parliament
Youth parliament
Youth parliament
Youth parliament

The DIKSHA policy framework

Produced from the Bengaluru parliament and addressed to the BBMP, the city's municipal government. It sets out 15 implementable proposals on digital access, curriculum equity, safety and higher aspiration.

Document cover
DIKSHA policy frameworkCover page
Document page
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Presentation photo
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Workshops and ambassadors

Political-awareness workshops run with NGOs in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Egypt, Pakistan and the UAE.

Leading a civic-awareness workshop with a large group of children seated on the floor
Civic-awareness workshop
Facilitating a discussion with children during a civic-awareness workshop
Civic-awareness workshop
Children making peace signs with volunteers after a workshop at the Paathshala Trust
Civic-awareness workshop
Posing close together with a group of girls after a workshop
Civic-awareness workshop
Children listening closely to a facilitator in front of a world map mural
Civic-awareness workshop
Team photo
Ambassador team

The team

Leadership across countries, Indian states and the core team.

Global core team

17 countries
IndiaSiddharth Sharma
SingaporeAnoush Owaise
UAEAngela Mary Christo (Abu Dhabi)
MoroccoFatima Ezzahra Akhdime
GhanaAngela Sena Dugo (Accra)
MyanmarKhin Yadanar Aung (Yangon)
ZambiaWisdom Simwinga
JamaicaLt. Maj. Rasheed Downer Jr (St. Catherine)
DenmarkManya (Copenhagen)
Costa RicaEmma Victoria Arce Chaves (Alajuela)
AlgeriaBelaidi Elissa (Algiers)
AustriaMargaryta-Luiza Pavlikovska
South AfricaNokutenda Chivhanga
AzerbaijanRose Maria Biju (Baku)
PakistanMuhammad Rao
KenyaChristian Bradley Odhiambo
NigeriaAisha Ammani

UAE core team: Abriti Khamrai, Karthidharan Neelagandan, Heemani Gagandeep Jindal, Jessica Elizabeth Philips, Muhammad Talha (Al Ain, Sharjah)

Morocco core team: Hiba Zmerdah (Rabat), Safae El Amrany (Sidi Slimane)

India state teams

15 states
StateLead State AmbassadorsState Ambassadors
Uttar PradeshNayesha Arora (Kanpur), Anshika (Lucknow)Niharika (Greater Noida), Yoshita (Ghaziabad), Nityant Gupta (Ghaziabad), Yoshita Chug (Ghaziabad)
RajasthanSagar MotwaniPrakhar Singhvi (Udaipur), Aishna Goyal (Jaipur)
HaryanaNaysa SinghalRaina Surtani (Gurgaon), Avyanna Gupta (Gurgaon)
Andhra PradeshVennala Rishivardhan Reddy—
DelhiGaneev, AnushikaAdrija Pathak, Kartik Malik
West BengalSwapnomoy Ghosh (Rishra)Rishav Mitra, Saprativ Das (Barrackpore)
TelanganaPratham Singh—
JharkhandKrittika Sarkar—
ChhattisgarhTanya Sangoi—
MaharashtraPranita IllaDhanvi Bhandary (Mumbai)
Madhya PradeshSwanandi Chaudhari—
PunjabRishith Aggarwal (Chandigarh)Aarushi (Patiala)
BiharSriyasi (Bhagalpur)—
Tamil NaduDhanishka (Trichy)—
AssamAryan Kashyap—

India core team

8 departments
DepartmentHeadTeam
OperationsKanay Shah—
OutreachGarvit Pandey—
FinanceYuvraj Agarwal, Arjun SinghYug Saluja
VolunteersRaina Kapoor—
Social MediaAera JainYashasvi
TechnologyJevesh JainKarthidharan Neelagandan
ContentAanya MathurGaurisha Jain
Junior Representatives—Jaiveer Bansal, Grisha Bhatia