aikyam fellows

Contact us

Whether you have a question, want to get involved, or need more information about our projects, we're here to help.

Write to us

Four different things arrive on this page, so there are four addresses. Picking the right one means your message reaches the person who can actually answer it.

A question about the fellowship, or about a story you read

Read by Aparna R, Communication Associate.

Email us address needed

You want to be an aikyam fellow

Read by Shabana K H, Community Coordinator. Tell us what you are working on and what is in your way — there is no form and no deadline.

Tell us about your work address needed

You want to fund or partner with the fellowship

Read by Shemeer Babu, Co-founder, and Chhabil Gadia, CFO. See who already does.

Start a conversation address needed

You want to work or volunteer with us

We are looking for social entrepreneurs, technologists, storytellers and advisors. What we are looking for is on the About page.

Send us your work address needed

Something on this site is wrong

A fellow's story, a name, a date, a fact. Tell us which page and what is wrong with it. We will correct it and say that we did.

Report a mistake address needed

Not a way to reach us — but you can follow along

Subscribing sends you new fellow stories. It does not send us a message and nobody reads it as one. If you want an answer, use one of the addresses above.

One email when a new fellow's story is published — roughly twice a month, sometimes less. Nothing else, ever. Leaving takes one click and no reason.

Kit note — not part of the page.

⛔ Five unfilled slots, on purpose. The live site publishes no email address anywhere, so there was nothing to read off it. Inventing a plausible one — hello@ plus the domain — would have made this kit look finished and shipped a fabricated address into production. The dashed red slots are the component refusing to render a fact it does not have. A page carrying one is not ready to ship.

⛔ The defect this page fixes. On the live /contact/ page the only control is a newsletter subscribe box. The page says "we're here to help" and then offers no address, no form and no name — the invitation renders perfectly while the thing behind it is absent.

Staff names are real, read off the live About page on 7 Aug 2026. Each person must agree to be named as the reader of a route before this ships — being named on a contact page is a commitment, and it is not design's to make on their behalf.