PRIZES to win! PROMOTIONS
Arjun Deshmukh writes where code meets power. Raised among the din of new industries and old institutions, he is preoccupied with a simple question: how do we keep human dignity intact when systems scale faster than laws and habits? His work braids field reporting, historical memory, and systems thinking-moving from the quiet rooms where standards are set to the municipal offices where outages are felt. He has spent years listening to engineers, civil servants, nurses, and small traders describe the same event from different angles, then building frameworks ordinary readers can use. In the tradition of writers who make complex worlds legible without condescension, he argues for security that does not devour liberty, and for sovereignty that does not require empire.
