Following a ODI Fellowship posting to South Africa for two years, I am now a Senior Economist at the National Treasury of South Africa working on policy issues surrounding fiscal decentralisation and sub-national infrastructure investment. Though using them in an African rather South Asian context now, the interdisciplinary analytical skills I learnt via the MSc in Contemporary India continue to be invaluable in my daily policy discussions and assignments. The degree content, the staff and my classmates made the whole environment at Oxford a brilliant experience that I remember very fondly and is one that undoubtedly helped kick-start my career.