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.
Politics

An Indian Express op-ed calls the protests peaceful. The record says otherwise.

On 14 October 2026, The Indian Express published an opinion piece by Faizan Mustafa and Ayan Aditya Giri, “When the state paints dissent as...
Politics

The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion 

ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner on the strength of a newspaper report. The same day,...
Education

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.
Media

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...
Economy

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...
Politics

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...