Sushant Singh teaches South Asian Studies and Political Science at Yale University. He is Consulting Editor of The Caravan, and a columnist for The Morning Context and The Telegraph in Kolkata. He co-founded The India Cable, the Substack of The Wire. He has won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. He was earlier Deputy Editor of Indian Express. Prior to his career in journalism and academia, he was a colonel in the Indian Army and served as UN Military Observer in Côte d’Ivoire.