#103 Constitution Chronicles: 4 Books & 2 Speeches 🎧

<em>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: </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 on all podcasting platforms 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/>- <em>Pranay Kotasthane & RSJ</em><br/><br/>It’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’d like to call out a few here. <br/><br/>The Constitution will remain a distant and daunting document as long as we don’t develop a habit of referencing it directly. Thankfully, EBC has been publishing a<a target="_blank" 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’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’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.in/Indias-Founding-Moment-Constitution-Surprising/dp/0674247981"><em>India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy</em></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