Thank you for swinging by! I’m Ved Shinde, a writer and historian-in-training on a journey to explore the human predicament. Perhaps by cultivating the art of subtle sensibilities.

I am also an incoming doctoral candidate in the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge. Previously, I read history and politics at the University of Cambridge as an MPhil scholar and Politics and Economics at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, for my undergraduate studies.

I have worked as a research assistant to Dr C Raja Mohan and have previously been associated with the Centre for Geopolitics Cambridge, the Asia Society Policy Institute in New Delhi, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, St. Stephen’s Centre for Advanced Learning and Synergia Foundation in Bangalore.

I often write on great-power politics, Asian geopolitics, and Indian foreign policy for the Lowy Institute, Australia, and Engelsberg Ideas, London. My writing occasionally ventures into culture as well. My work has appeared in Nikkei Asia, The Hill, The Hindu, East Asia Forum, CNA, India’s World, Providence, Oxford Political Review, and Fair Observer.

I’m yet to be taken seriously by my family. Hopefully, you, my reader— will show faith.