Learning to Anticipate the Unintended

We write posts once a week, on Sundays. Occasionally, we post a mid-week short post as well. If you are wondering where to begin, check out our PolicyWTF Long List, which will make your head spin. Once you have reoriented yourself, head over to our Frameworks Long List, a one-stop shop for quite a few frameworks to analyse public policy issues. You can also log in to the website to read the full archives and other posts as they are published.

Since Indian public policy interests you, check out our little book Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy, an Amazon.in Best Seller in the public policy category.

And yes, if you prefer to dive in right away, here are our top 5 editions thus far:

1. #126 A Little Boat Adrift

2. #181 We Shall Overcome

3. #173 Lathpath, Lathpath, Lathpath, Agnipath*

4. #169 The Past is a Foreign Country

5. #23 How to Think About the Indian State

There are also a couple of compilations that should interest anyone interested in learning public policy.

1. Public Policy Frameworks Longlist

2. PolicyWTF Longlist

Thanks,
Pranay & RSJ

Some housekeeping...

If you can’t find the newsletter, check your spam folder. And please mark this address as ‘not spam.’ If the newsletter isn’t in your spam folder, either, you should look in the Promotions tab.

You can always see everything on the website.

Thanks again, and please tell a few friends if you feel like it.

© 2026 Pranay Kotasthane & RSJ
Bengaluru, India