Archive - Get Down and Shruti

Kamala Harris, Usha Vance, and the twice-born thrice-selected Indian American elite

They didn't fall out of a coconut tree.

Jul 24 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

June 2024

Why did Indian exit polls get it so very wrong?

Sampling error, preference falsification, media bias, postponed census, and more......

Jun 5 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

April 2024

An economic puzzle of the Modi years : the hype is not followed by investment

The answer lies in the many kinds of political uncertainty, low and declining Gross Fixed Capital Formation, and the many quirks of Indian policymaking.

Apr 9 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

December 2023

What I read this year

On history, socialism, film, policy, and the current thing (not)

Dec 31, 2023 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

July 2023

Demography, Delimitation, and Democracy

One person one vote, and other questions Indians must confront.

Jul 3, 2023 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

April 2023

A podcast with C. Rangarajan, BR Ambedkar the economist, Fellowship deadlines

Ideas of India podcast, elite imitation in policy, Ambedkar Jayanti readings, and some fellowship deadlines

Apr 14, 2023 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

March 2023

Did Modi kill India's democracy by expelling its opposition leader from Parliament?

This is not the result of an assassination, but a slow growing cancer infecting every institution of India.

Mar 27, 2023 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

January 2023

Supreme Court of India on Demonetization - A Farce in Three Acts

Vivek Narayan Sinha v Union of India

Jan 13, 2023 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

December 2022

Sorry, Wrong Number

What Crossed Connections and Wrong Numbers in Hindi Cinema (and their disappearance) Tell You About India

Dec 26, 2022 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

Altruism and Development - It's complicated.......

Effective altruism, air pollution in Delhi, Supreme Court of India, and trade off between legibility and complexity in evaluating philanthropic efforts.

Dec 12, 2022 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

November 2022

Why everyone should pay more attention to India...

And it is not for the reasons you may think.......

Nov 28, 2022 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

This is Get Down and Shruti, a newsletter by Shruti Rajagopalan about India.

Nov 8, 2022 •

Shruti Rajagopalan

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