A student of how good intentions become working systems.
I’m Aanya — I study public policy and governance, spend most of my reading time inside budget documents and evaluation reports, and write here to make sense of them. My interest is narrow and stubborn: the distance between a scheme as written and a scheme as received.
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Where I’ve been studying
Undergraduate studies in Political Science & Public Policy
Coursework in governance, quantitative methods, and political economy
Focusing on implementation research: what happens between a notified scheme and a household that receives it.
Research assistantship, urban governance
Independent study group
Coded municipal budget documents across six cities and built a comparative view of adaptation spending.
Senior secondary, humanities stream
School leadership and debate
Started writing publicly about policy after a year of parliamentary debate and a first attempt at a research paper.
What I keep coming back to
How I work
Three questions I’m working on
Each of these started as a blog post and refused to end there.
Implementation gaps in welfare
Measuring where legitimate claims drop out of the pipeline, and which frictions are cheapest to remove.
Municipal climate capacity
Whether cities have the staffing and budget lines to run the adaptation plans they have published.
Automated decision-making by the state
Appeal rights and error transparency when eligibility is decided by a model rather than an officer.
Cases, committees and papers
National Policy Case Challenge
Finalist
Proposed a single-window verification model for a state-level scholarship scheme.
Model United Nations, UNEP committee
Best Delegate
Negotiated a working paper on urban heat resilience financing.
Inter-collegiate Research Paper Competition
Second place
Submitted a comparative reading of six municipal heat action plans.
Groups I help run
Editor, student policy review
Commission and edit six essays per issue; run the writing workshop for new contributors.
Founder, The 3rd Eye Economist reading circle
A weekly group that reads one primary policy document together, start to finish.
Head of the debating society
Coached twelve first-time debaters through their first competitive season.
Recognition along the way
Young Researcher Commendation
2026For sustained independent writing on welfare implementation.
Best Delegate, UNEP
2025Recognised for the strongest working paper in committee.
Academic Excellence Award
2025Top of cohort in political science coursework.
Writing Prize, school essay competition
2024For an essay on the right to information in practice.