The Magazine Inaugural Edition
SPRING 2025 · EDITOR'S NOTE
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Features

A picture of the Taj Hotel, Mumbai in a sunset

Retaliate with a Thousand Cuts: Evolution of India’s Responses to Cross-Border Terrorism

An analysis of New Delhi’s shifting red lines, exploring how bureaucratic constraints gave way to a decisive military-first doctrine.

Bandish Oza
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Edge of Catastrophe: The India-Pakistan Standoff & Doctrines

Is India's new, lethal anti-terror doctrine making regional conflict inevitable?

Nishkalp Shukla
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Hashtag, Hope & the Heat of Dissent

Gen Z and the New Wave of Political Activism in South Asia

Dipanita Kulshrestha
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How India defended itself from State-sponsored Cyberattacks

From Pahalgram terror attack to Operation Sindoor, an account.

Puloma Pal

Essays, Arguments & Letters

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Our Turn to Lead

A letter reimagining South Asia through youthful resolve

Srijani Ganguly

A Shared Climate, A Shared Crisis

The Environmental Emergency in South Asia.

Nayanika Karan
Rohingya refgugees looking at their broken slums

Assam’s Policy and the Erosion of Human Dignity

The issue of migration

Sreejayaa Rajguru
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Mental Health and the Perpetual Shadow of India-Pakistan Conflict

What is the psychological impact of decades of hurt?

Dr. Shailen Verma

Dear Friend Across the Border

A Letter Across Lines

Aradhya Sinha
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Blurring the Indo-Pak Divide: Cross-Border Marriages

Stories of hope and despair from the meadow

Shreya Nautiyal
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Dear Future Peacemaker

A letter

Uttara Das
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Culture, Contest and Connectivity

Soft power diplomacy in South Asia

Astha Panda & Dr. Malini Prava Sethi