Profile

I'm an advocate and attorney, admitted to practice in India and New York. My work runs across commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, and real-estate transactions and disputes — for start-ups and closely held companies, developers, and foreign parties.

I founded my practice, Novo Legal, in 2024, after two years as Additional Standing Counsel for the State of Odisha, where I appeared before the Orissa High Court and assisted the Advocate General in matters that reached the Supreme Court of India. I began my career as a judicial law clerk to Justice A. K. Sikri at the Supreme Court of India, working on constitution-bench matters including the challenge to Aadhaar.

I hold an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where I was a James Kent Scholar, edited the Science and Technology Law Review, externed at the Knight First Amendment Institute on free-speech litigation, and trained in appellate advocacy at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, under Judges Michael H. Park and Gerard E. Lynch. Earlier, I advised a Member of Parliament on India's Personal Data Protection Bill.

I treat a brief and an essay as the same task: find the real question, then answer it plainly.

I write, often, about technology and the law — data, privacy, platform regulation, and the constitutional questions that come with new technology. My essays and op-eds have appeared in The Hindu, The Indian Express, Scroll, The Wire and on leading law blogs. I work in English, Hindi and Odia.