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#126 A Little Boat Adrift 🎧
Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town? (Emily Dickinson)
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#181 We Shall Overcome
Listen now (55 min) | Celebrating 75 years of Independent India.
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[Special Edition] Frameworks to Understand Public Policy
A compilation of frameworks that have featured in this thought-letter
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#299 General Equilibria
India-Pakistan Strikes and Counter-strikes; and What a Failed Chip Fab Plan Means for India
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#271 Some Slopes Are Slippery For Real
A Debate on Caste-based Census, A Trade BATman, and An Algorithm for Fiscal Federalism
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#289 Trump's Geoeconomics and Geopolitics
of MEGA Tariffs and Broken TRUST
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#240 Peering Into the Future
Sharp Predictions for 2024, the Services and/or Manufacturing Debate, and the PolicyWTF that Downed India's Textile Industry
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PolicyWTFs—A Hall of Shame
A compilation of all the failed policies that have received not-so-honourable mentions in this thoughtletter
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#300 Words Have Meanings
India-Pakistan Narrative Warfare and the Four Notions of Technological Sovereignty
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#287 Inflection Points
Understanding DeepSeek Breakthrough, Making Sense of Technological Sovereignty, and Parsing the Budget Announcements
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#286 In a Flux
Senseless Alcohol Retail Regulations, Trump2.0 Begins, and Strengthening the Indian Republic
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#173 Lathpath, Lathpath, Lathpath, Agnipath*
Recruitment reforms in armed forces. What makes social media so powerful?
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