Chaitanya The Policy Consultancy / Chaitanya

Founded in 2005, Chaitanya is a small Chennai-based consultancy specialising in research and academic programming on political and policy issues relating to gender, international relations and security broadly defined.

Swarna Rajagopalan is the founder and Director of Chaitanya. Her team projects are carried out under the Chaitanya rubric and she has a considerable portfolio of research, consultancy, writing and teaching to her individual credit. From 2006 to 2025, she was the Managing Trustee of The Prajnya Trust, which she founded and select Prajnya programmes have now been transferred to the Chaitanya platform. Swarna Rajagopalan's consultancy portfolio has been diverse, both in terms of clients and the nature of the projects she has undertaken.

Consultancy

Chaitanya is able to undertake programme reviews and desk-based projects. These include qualitative needs or performance assessments of development initiatives. Proposal and report reviews are also undertaken.

Research

Chaitanya is open to joining academic research projects. We are able to conduct qualitative research, manage field teams and handle report-writing. We are also open to doing proposal reviews, manuscript evaluation and substantive editing on research projects.

Educational and Academic Projects

Dr. Swarna Rajagopalan has three decades of teaching experience and two decades of planning advocacy and public education events and campaigns.

Chaitanya is open to academic programming assignments in areas relating to gender, governance, international relations and security studies:

Peace Education

With the closure of The Prajnya Trust, the Education for Peace Initiative of the Trust has been transferred to the aegis of Chaitanya.