#103 Constitution Chronicles: 4 Books & 2 Speeches 🎧

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question:&#160;how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?<br/><br/>PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at&#160;<a href="https://www.ad-auris.com/">Ad-Auris</a>. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.<br/><br/>- Pranay Kotasthane & RSJ<br/><br/>It&#8217;s the 72nd Republic Day today (as we write this). The Constitution of India is a revolutionary document. The past few years have seen some wonderful works of scholarship about our constitution. We&#8217;d like to call out a few here. <br/><br/>The Constitution will remain a distant and daunting document as long as we don&#8217;t develop a habit of referencing it directly. Thankfully, EBC has been publishing a<a href="https://www.ebcwebstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=100647"> coat pocketbook version</a> since 2009. It works great as a reference book. And it doesn&#8217;t hurt that it looks elegant and makes for a wonderful gift. As an aside, a dream project of mine is to convert the constitution into a knowledge graph that visually connects the cross-referencing articles in the Constitution. If any AtU reader has the technical chops to make this happen, please ping us. <br/><br/>Madhav Khosla&#8217;s <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Indias-Founding-Moment-Constitution-Surprising/dp/0674247981">India&#8217;s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy</a>is a brilliant and erudite work that is essential to understand the radical nature of our Constitution and the interplay of ideas and debates among people who cared deeply for this nation that led to its creation.<br/><br/>R