She leads advocacy initiatives & strategic partnerships at Centre for Decentralised Local Governance, Avantika Foundation, a Bangalore-based not-for-profit organisation that works on building the institutional capacity of rural and urban local self-governments. She was previously Manager-Advocacy with Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy & an Assistant Editor with The Times of India. Madhavi writes on a wide spectrum of development-related issues. She strayed into journalism charged with idealism to quench her curious mind and love for writing. After seven years in the news industry, she moved on to pursue her interest in policy research, currently her mainstay. She is formally trained in development studies and journalism. Madhavi Rajadhyaksha is a journalist now working on governance and policy issues. She leads advocacy initiatives & strategic partnerships at Centre for . . . more