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On counting and marrying out of caste | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. On counting and marrying out of caste. January 26, 2015. Most measurements of caste dynamics are flawed by a lack of good numbers, but that’s a good thing. A few months ago, my fellow blogger Karthik Shashidhar. At how inter-caste marriages are happening in India. He had visualised the results of an interesting paper. While theirs was a valiant effort, they end up dramatically undercounting marriages outside caste. It’s probably for the best that we don’t...
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Openness Policy | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. Strongly believes in the principles of openness and data sharing. Raw data used to create graphics on. Will be made available in usable formats within a few days of content going online, and readers are welcome to request the data if there are delays. Further, all text and image content on the blog that has not been published elsewhere first will be available on a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license 3.0. He teaches topics in policy analysis, urban govern...
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Markets | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. RSS feed for this section. Internet as a public good: A case for net neutrality. April 19, 2015. The internet has public good characteristics, and telecom liberalisation will not be sufficient to keep the internet healthy and growing. Classic OPTE Project Map of the Internet 2005: Flickr. A basic notion about the internet is that it is a networked good, which means that its value increases with its size. As my colleagues Karthik Shashidhar. PS Read the ta...
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Foreign Policy | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. RSS feed for this section. India’s unusual trade pattern with the United States. February 6, 2015. Shared the latest US-India trade in goods data. Updated by the US Census Bureau. India has a running trade deficit in goods: where it imports more goods than its exports. It is wrong to simplistically judge whether a trade deficit is good or bad however, India does do ‘better’ when it comes to its services. Website on India-US trade relations says that India...
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Public Policy | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. RSS feed for this section. Cities and the Swachh Bharat Mission. February 18, 2016. Arunima Rajan interviewed me recently for an article in. On what ails India’s cities, and whether the Government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission can tackle these ailments. Here is the full text of the interview:. Q1 Can clean cities lead to healthier cities? Q2 Has Swachh Bharat provided a good framework to address public health problems? The Swachh Bharat programme has c...
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India’s unusual trade pattern with the United States | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. India’s unusual trade pattern with the United States. February 6, 2015. Shared the latest US-India trade in goods data. Updated by the US Census Bureau. India has a running trade deficit in goods: where it imports more goods than its exports. It is wrong to simplistically judge whether a trade deficit is good or bad however, India does do ‘better’ when it comes to its services. Website on India-US trade relations says that India’s largest goods expo...
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Data Visualisation | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. RSS feed for this section. India’s unusual trade pattern with the United States. February 6, 2015. Shared the latest US-India trade in goods data. Updated by the US Census Bureau. India has a running trade deficit in goods: where it imports more goods than its exports. It is wrong to simplistically judge whether a trade deficit is good or bad however, India does do ‘better’ when it comes to its services. Website on India-US trade relations says that India...
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Arranging a market for lemons | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. Arranging a market for lemons. May 5, 2015. My fellow blogger Karthik Shashidhar. And his wife Priyanka Bharadwaj. Started an interesting conversation on his personal blog on the grand old market in India: arranged marriage. They assert that the arranged marriage market has become increasingly illiquid. Selected. Thus arranged marriage markets can become markets for lemons. This is not to say that it’s impossible to have a happy arranged marriage th...
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The Eightfold path to Good Public Engagement | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. The Eightfold path to Good Public Engagement. May 6, 2015. I was asked to speak. At a panel titled “Engaging Policymakers, Journalists and the Public” last week at a conference of think tanks in New Delhi. I primarily spoke about how Takshashila engages the public, especially via blogs, op-eds and social media. Here are those thoughts distilled into an ‘Eight-fold-path’ on good public engagement for think tanks. Original image: Dhamma Wheel. People are bu...
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Reading between the Budget lines | The Transition State
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On the Indian National Interest. About & Contact. Reading between the Budget lines. March 1, 2015. Five broad ideas to read the budget commentary better. Here is a quick guide to reading the expenditure budget with five broad ideas, and questions to ask yourselves as you continue to read the commentary. The second idea is to compare like with like. An article in. On science and tech funding is illustrative of a lot of misleading figures (HT: Anand Ranganathan. To begin with, the headline claims that the ...
