Journal
Notes, essays, dispatches.
Policy · Notes · Diplomacy · AI Governance · Education · Travel6 pieces · Latest: 6 November 2026
The archive
- 06The phone that kept ringingIn 2021 I helped run a COVID-19 helpline across two Indian states. It taught me that in a crisis, information is a form of infrastructure.
- 05Home, in another languageWhy I started a Telugu society at LSE, and what a shared language does for people a long way from home.
- 04The room before the roomOrganising more than fifteen embassy visits as a student taught me that most of diplomacy happens before anyone sits down.
- 03Governing systems that learnWe usually talk about AI governance as a race between innovation and regulation. I think it's really a question of whether institutions can keep up.
- 02Permission, not preparationThe students best qualified for the world's top universities are often the least sure they belong there. I've come to see that as a policy problem as much as a personal one.
- 01The journey is the briefNotes on what luxury travel is really selling, and why the best of it feels less like a product and more like being paid attention to.
Nothing filed under this topic yet.