Harshita is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Political Science program at York University. She previously worked as News Editor for Excalibur Publications and has volunteered for several NGOs in her home country, India. In her free time, Harshita can be found reading a mix of classical fiction, indulging in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekov, and historical non-fiction. An aspiring graduate student, her research interests include the Global South, the political economies of BRICS nations, India’s foreign policy and the Sub-Saharan African critical mineral mining industry.