Anmol Misra

Project Associate, PMJAY

Anmol studied History at the University of Delhi. He believes the discipline taught him to see the world in shades of grey rather than black and white. It gave him an eye for stories, for narration and for the quiet question underneath most things: how did we get here and who got left out along the way?

That question has followed him everywhere. Into a monastery compound in Komic, Spiti Valley- one of the highest villages in the world, where he lived with the community, documented oral histories and co-curated a museum before the memories faded. Into an election campaign in Goa, where he tried to understand how people choose their representatives.

Eventually into the world of digital health infrastructure, where he spent two years at Swasth Alliance building Health Claims Exchange. A Digital Public Good for health insurance interoperability, rooted in one belief: that something technically complex must stay humanly legitimate. And somewhere in between, he completed a Permaculture Design Course to better understand the relationship between human communities and the ecologies they depend on.

What connects it all is a single instinct. Staying close to samaaj, working with sarkaar and never losing sight of bazaar.

Off the clock, he is learning Hindustani classical music on violin and loves teaching. He is happiest in places that are culturally sensitive, ecologically vulnerable and geographically remote.