Sanhita Pandey

Sanhita Pandey is an advocate with command over public law and a political enthusiast tracking India’s political economy, national security and policy evolution.

Read it before you burn it

India’s student Left wants to roll back the country’s biggest education reform in a generation. Its case does not survive contact with the document.

The Hindu’s editorial on UN CERD’s report on India does not survive the evidence

On 30 August 2026, The Hindu, referred to by millions of UPSC aspirants, published an editorial titled ‘State of exception: On India, the UN...

UPI went digital. Now cash goes plastic.

If you'd told someone five years ago that India, the country running the world's largest real-time digital payments system, would actually spend 2026 talking...

How Mamata defeated herself

Mamata Banerjee has lost the mandate. Mamata is no longer the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Mamata, who stormed into power in West Bengal...