Researcher · Curator · Practitioner
About Me →Tracking the implementation gap between India's new labour codes and ground-level enforcement across informal sector workers.
2024 View project →A spatial and livelihood documentation of street vendors across five cities — mapping routes, incomes, and vulnerability to eviction.
2023 View project →A public exhibition documenting home-based and domestic workers whose labour sustains households but escapes formal count.
2022 View project →Design and implementation of a portable benefits pilot for informal workers in Delhi, Lucknow, and Patna.
2022 View project →A longitudinal study of occupational hazards and income volatility among Delhi's night-shift sanitation workers.
2021 View project →Community-embedded documentation of livelihoods, seasonal migration patterns, and social capital among low-income urban households.
2020 View project →Visibility is a precondition for rights — and the tools of policy and the tools of art are not as separate as they are often imagined to be.
I am a public policy researcher and development practitioner based in New Delhi. My work sits at the intersection of labour rights, the informal economy, and social protection — with a focus on workers whose contributions to urban life remain largely invisible in policy and public imagination.
I have spent the last several years with SEWA Bharat, working on field research, programme design, and advocacy for informal and home-based workers across India. I also curate exhibitions that translate research into public-facing form.
I believe that visibility is a precondition for rights — and that the tools of policy and the tools of art are not as separate as they are often imagined to be.
Let's talk about labour, cities, and the spaces in between.
hello@anshujha.com