Winning Essays

The annual Vera Anstey South Asia Essay Competition is very popular amongst postgraduate students at LSE, and the Centre receives brilliant submissions.

The best essay is published on 'South Asia @ LSE', the Centre's flagship academic blog which has been ranked in the top 10 (out of 40+) academic blogs at LSE since 2021, with nearly half a million readers every year.

The winner also receives Waterstones Book Vouchers worth £250.

PRIZE-WINNING ESSAYS

• 2023-24: Zaid Ahmed Abro (LSE Masters in International Social and Public Policy), 'Polling Agents: An Unlikely Agent for Development in South Asia' (for the topic 'Politics is a Barrier to Social Change in South Asia').
• 2022-23: Shaurya Dev (LSE Masters in International Relations), 'What could "Decolonisation" mean for Contemporary South Asia?'.
• 2021-22: Elias Khoury (LSE Masters in Public Policy & Administration), 'South Asia: A Frontier for Sustainability on a Dying Planet' (for the topic 'How can South Asia Contribute to Global Development?).
• 2020-21: Ritika Arora-Kukreja (LSE MRes/PhD in International Development), 'The Threat of Consent' (for the topic 'What is the Biggest Challenge facing South Asia in the Next 10 Years?).