Category Politics & Society

Politics & Society

The Passport Lottery

Spanish, French, Israeli and United States passports arranged side by side

How Birth, Wealth and Borders Divide the World’s Freedom to Move I. Two Passports, Two Worlds A Singaporean passport offered access to 192 destinations without a visa in advance in the July 2026 update of the Henley Passport Index. An…

Yogendra Singh
October 15, 2026

Politics & Society

The Exam That Holds India Together

Overhead view of hundreds of students taking a competitive exam in a colonnaded heritage hall in India

Why NEET, the Cockroach Janta Party, and a paper leak became a crisis of state legitimacy On 3 May 2026, something over two million Indians sat NEET-UG, the country’s only real gateway into medical school. What followed quickly became one…

Yogendra Singh
July 21, 2026