Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a political commentator, freethinker, radical humanist, and Human rights activist with over 20 years of work with various social movements and communities all over the country, on issues of hunger and starvation, land rights of tribal and Dalits. Women’s issues. He was one of the members of the solidarity committee on the Right to Food in India which is spearheading the campaign for the Food Security Bill in India.