Nishad Sanzagiri is an incoming masters student at the University of Oxford, where he will be pursuing an MSc in Modern South Asian Studies at St. Antony’s College. He holds an undergraduate degree with first-class honours in International Relations with Quantitative Methods from the University of Edinburgh. Nishad’s work has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times of India, amongst others. He also publishes opinion pieces on his personal blog on Medium. Before coming to the UK, Nishad spent more than a decade in the Middle East; primarily in Muscat, Oman, but also in Abu Dhabi, UAE.