Author: Malvika Singh
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Neutrality and Its Discontents: Caste, Equity, and the UGC
The debate over the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 has become a proxy fight over a deeper question: whether Indian higher education…
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Explainer: Pricing Politics into America’s Debt
The Shifting Calculus of “Safe Assets” For three decades, U.S. Treasury securities were the closest thing the world had to a truly risk-free asset. Central banks and sovereign wealth funds…
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Greenland and the Limits of NATO’s Credibility
Greenland used to sit, geopolitically speaking, at the edge of the map: a vast, sparsely populated island whose strategic value was mostly a Cold War memory of bombers and early-warning…
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Inside Iran’s Crisis: How Power, Not Protest, Will Shape What Comes Next
Iran is not on the brink of collapse. And it is no longer operating within its old margins of control. These statements are true together. Beyond the scale of unrest,…



