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Blossomed, Not Assembled — Ancient Indian Wisdom Guide for Viksit Bharat
What can India's oldest texts teach a country racing to be developed by 2047? Not answers. Tests: what to borrow, what to keep, how to build rules that outlive their makers, who may use them, and what must never be spent.
Nov 64 min read
Shade for People He Would Never Meet — What a developed India must never spend: its earth, its public roads and its institutions
A richer India could still be a poorer one. It could drain Punjab's water, let two apps crowd its payment rails and let its institutions quietly die. The last volume of Blossomed, Not Assembled names what a developed India must never spend.
Nov 531 min read
Who May Drink From the Tank? — Mahad, the family and the langar, and the long opening of India's institutions
Most older Indians live with their children, and that is a real strength. The same homes, castes and temples also locked people out of water, land and food. Mahad and the langar show who opened them, and why care that forbids exit is not care.
Nov 531 min read
A Boy, a Pot and Thirty Wards — How a Tamil village chose its leaders by lot, and rewrote its own rules in 921
In about 921, a Tamil village chose its committees by lot from a pot, barred men who hid their accounts, and then rewrote its own rules. The wall at Uttaramērūr does not prove ancient democracy. It shows something more useful, rules that were corrected.
Nov 529 min read
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