Manu Sharma is a Research Associate at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR), New Delhi, where he undertakes archival and primary research on Indian foreign policy. He is also an Editorial Associate at India’s World magazine. With a keen interest in Visual Methods and International Security Studies, he earned his PhD from CIPOD, JNU, examining how postage stamps serve as instruments of political messaging in South Asia. When not dissecting diplomacy, he indulges his penchant for philately—decoding history one stamp at
a time.