#92 India's Marathon 🎧

<em>This newsletter is really a weekly 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: </em><strong><em>how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?</em></strong><br/><br/><em>PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration courtesy the good folks at </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ad-auris.com/"><em>Ad-Auris</em></a><em>. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.</em><br/><br/>New Book Out! — <em>India’s Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order</em><br/><br/>— Pranay Kotasthane<br/><br/>I’ve co-edited <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08NC125Q6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#38;keywords=india%27s+marathon&#38;qid=1605272509&#38;sr=8-1"><em>India’s Marathon</em></a><em> —</em> a collaborative effort that brings together bold ideas on India’s place in the changing world order from some of India’s finest young thinkers. <br/><br/><em>(India’s Marathon, book cover by Anirudh Kanisetti)</em><br/><br/>Don’t take my word for it. This is what Ambassador Shivshankar Menon writes in his foreword:<br/><br/>“This volume poses questions which everyone wants answered but few dare to reply: how will the world order evolve and how can India deal with it? The Takshashila Institution has brought together some of the best minds to answer this question, and to give an Indian perspective on world order issues. Just for this the book deserves to be welcomed. This volume consists of coherent contributions from these scholars covering how India should manage its external relationships and the reforms that India needs to undertake domestically.<br/><br/>… No reader would or should agree with everything in this book. I, for one, am not sure that India’s choice is between alignme