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About Us

​As a global community, we are faced with an intersectional crisis of deteriorating health, socio-economic injustice, and ecological degradation. A radical change in our systems and in our culture of living is inevitable. While positive change is happening around the world, truly transformative and holistic change requires whole-systems thinking, collaboration, inclusivity, and creativity.

 

Bangalore Creative Circus (BCC) was started as an experiment in an old warehouse in the year 2019 by Ajay Raghavan, a former employment lawyer. We are now a growing community of artists, dreamers and changemakers, all committed to inspiring and enabling regenerative systems, communities, and cultures.

 

Modelled as an Urban Living Lab, BCC is a platform where diverse changemakers can collaborate, experiment, and showcase solutions. Equally, it is a space where consumers can find access to community, knowledge, and services across systems of - Food, Water, Energy, Waste, Building, Mobility, Tourism, Events, Art & Design, Technology, Justice, Health, and Wellbeing.

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Our Team

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Ajay used to be one of the top employment lawyers in the world. He was a senior partner at India’s leading law firm, Trilegal, where he built one of the most successful legal practices in the country. After being deeply influenced by what was happening with the planet, Ajay decided to focus his attention on sustainability and climate change. He is incredibly passionate about art, science, sustainability and wellbeing. Ajay is a strong believer in empathy, design thinking and collaborative frameworks. He is a co-founder at the Initiative for Climate Action, a non-profit with a vision to catalyze, enable and accelerate low carbon futures of justice and sustainability.  Ajay loves street art, music, hats, football and is a sucker for anything creative.

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Preeti Reganti

Preeti heads events for us at BCC. She enjoys spinning poi and staff, enjoys hunting waterfalls to jump into while not working. Basically an adventure lover, apart from definitely being a (not so) crazy dog lady. She always knew she wanted to work in events from a very young age. Her passion towards events started with planning birthday parties at a young age. Reach out to her for all your
sustainable event needs!

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Niyutsa Rajesh

Niyutsa is our in-house designer, illustrator and storyteller. A lover of colour and hand-painted signs, she seeks to infuse her organic illustration style into design with her practice. When not working, she loves to be in the mountains with her sketchbook, painting, gardening or doing pottery. She often daydreams of travelling the world over copious amounts of cold chocolate. Growing up in an alternate school, Niyutsa always knew she wanted to contribute her skills in a meaningful way to make the world a better place. And what better place to start, than BCC!

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Manisha has worked as a Marketing professional across industries since 2004. From Media, to FMCG, to Health-Tech, at both MNCs as well as startups, she brings varied experiential learning to now champion the cause of sustainable living. Ardent lover of music, travel, art and the world of books, she is often eagerly looking forward to conversations around human-interest stories. A mother to three Indies and an impressionable young girl, Manisha tries hard to always do the right thing for her daughter’s sake if not anything else! Deeply inspired by David Attenborough’s words, she is eager to play a role in restoring the planet’s biodiversity, even if her contribution is only a drop in the ocean. Afterall, every drop counts!

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Alok is a serial entrepreneur and investor having successful ventures in real estate, food, technology and fitness. Most notably, he was the co-founder of Vista Spaces, a boutique real estate development firm based out of Bangalore. An engineer by qualification and a triathlete by ambition, Alok is deeply interested in the clean tech startup ecospace. Having seen the devastating impact of unplanned, unsustainable development first-hand, he is keen on making a difference in sustainable construction practices and circular design. An avid football fan, Alok is also passionate about guitars, bicycles, cooking and the outdoors.

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Siddharth Lakshman

Siddharth cares deeply about making the world a more harmonious and peaceful place. After working with a contemporary art gallery for a few years, he spent many months slow travelling, and exploring a life connected to nature. During his travels, he lived and volunteered at an animal rescue organization, a permaculture farm, and an alternative school, amongst others. His journey is largely an exploration of sustainability, systems design, veganism, mindfulness, self transformation, and well-being. He is passionate about yoga, gardening, nature walks, music, and football

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Lakshman

Lakshman is the living embodiment of the BCC space. Having spent almost forty years at the premises in different roles, there is almost nothing that happens in the vicinity without him being on top of it. A big hearted person with an even bigger smile, Lakshman "Anna" is reinventing himself with a new avatar inspired by sustainable actions.

Collaborators

"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life" - Rabindranath Tagore

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