Notices by Prateek Waghre (prateekwaghre@mastodon.social)

Tell me you don’t understand something without telling me you don’t understand it.

Todo: spend more time writing + thinking, and less time admin-ing.

Help! I can no longer listen to music without re-contextualising the (sometimes, frankly inappropriate) lyrics in India’s public policy and political economy context.

GoI: Ease of doing business, sliced bread, ‘best-in-class’, yada yada…

Also GoI: Your ease of doing business ends where:
1) my mood swings
2) the mob screams
3) the vibe changes
4) my political posturing begins…

What else?

Neither technology, nor regulation can fix what political actors and sections of society insist on breaking.

- said no one on a Friday morning about <insert any issue here : elections/deepfakes for example>

Somewhere along the way, the Indian state seems to have forgotten that amorality maybe acceptable in international relations, but is highly undesirable for internal governance.