Swarna is a Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy working in the area of Fintech. She graduated from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata with a B.A. LL.B (Hons.) in 2021. Her areas of interests include financial regulations, data protection laws, commercial laws and the emerging frameworks of new financial technologies. She previously worked with the law firm L&L Partners wherein she was involved in advising on various issues under the Companies Act, the foreign exchange laws and the employment laws. She has also worked with the Vidhi Kautilya Society at NUJS and has contributed to the NUJS Law Review.

In this podcast, we have interviewed Swarna on her time at NUJS and how her activities at the universities allowed her to shape her interests and profession. We have talked to her about her experiences at L&L partners and the differences between working at a law firm and a policy think tank in India. We discussed her interests during law school and the work structure that the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy follows. Towards the end of the podcast, Swarna and the hosts talk about the situation of law schools in the country and what law students can do to cultivate their interests.