Changelog
What has been
added.
New ventures, canvases, blog posts and press, newest first. What I am working on this month is on Now.
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November 2026
- 6 Nov Thirty-six ventures are now listed. New cards: the Budget 2026-27 Explorer, Women on Record, PaperChime, Chromalie, Act Now India, How India Lives, Development Discourses, Dev Case Studies, the SDG Progress Tracker, India Development Indicators and Climate TRACE India. Every venture card now opens with the question it asks.
- 6 Nov The Shelf gained 66 books from my list of books read. Sixty-four carry a one-sentence note taken from the publisher or a reference page. The shelf now holds 185 titles.
- 6 Nov Three Populi sessions added to Talks: the MEL Foundations Lab (24 August to 5 October), the free Indicators masterclass (10 August) and the free masterclass on randomised control trials (13 October).
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October 2026
- 7 Oct Three new canvases: Framework 16 The Administrative List Test, 17 The High-Frequency Check and 18 Source Before You Say It. Eighteen frameworks now.
- 7 Oct New venture: Off the Roll, the analysis of the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls. Who Gave The Order and the two book companion sites, What Counts and Postheroic.World, added the same day, and A Lab (alab.cloud), the Class 8 revision app, as Growing, the Industry Conglomerates Database, Bihar Parichay, Experiments and Ummidvaar Dastaavez as Sketching, and Pika Woodcraft as Growing. Twenty-five ventures in all.
- 7 Oct New blog post: How Off the Roll is built, on where its figures come from and what the lists cannot show.
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August 2026
- 11 Aug Three new canvases shipped: Framework 13 Aspiration Gap, 14 Rapid Civic Tech, 15 Curriculum-Construct Fit. The canvas page shows them first.
- 9 Aug New blog post: The two-hour archive, on how Democracy by Design got built and what a protest archive has to refuse.
- 8 Aug Featured in The Hindu: When protest becomes memory, a joint interview with Pallavi Nayak on archiving dissent. Added to Publications.
- 8 Aug Two new ventures added: Democracy by Design (protest archive, co-founded with Pallavi Nayak) and littlek.in (Class 1 CBSE learn-and-play). Venture count 14 → 16.
- 8 Aug Three new Ideas Tested cards: Democracy by Design, littlek.in, and Badalte Khwaab (survey of 6,092 rural women across 15 states).
- 8 Aug Badalte Khwaab · Women’s Aspirations in a Changing India. The full report is out, led as Research Lead (Quantitative) with Development Intelligence Unit and Transform Rural India Foundation. Added under Peer-reviewed and academic.
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July 2026
- 7 Jul Framework 12 shipped: The Baseline Design Test.
- 7 Jul Framework 11 shipped: The Handover Canvas.
- 6 Jul New blog post: The observer files a report.
- 4 Jul New blog post: What the smartphone actually replaced.
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June 2026
- 5 Jun New blog post: Before you evaluate a curriculum, fix the construct.
- 3 Jun Framework 10 shipped: The Feedback Loop.
- 3 Jun Framework 09 shipped: The Survey Bias Audit.
- 2 Jun New blog post: What the hand-drawn map carries.
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May 2026
- 29 May Blog post: The number, the testimony, and the AQI you can act on.
- 29 May Twelve new Ideas Tested cards across political accountability, aquaculture welfare, welfare delivery, survey methods, and more.
- 29 May Framework 08 shipped: The Knowledge Map (Rumsfeld).
- 29 May /talks page created; A2GF Bangalore panel added.
- 29 May PhotoTales, PolicyGrounds Press, PolicyDhara, StoryWell, ImpactMojo, and Innovation Advisory all move to Active.
- 29 May Some Perspective added as an Active venture; venture count 12 → 14.
- 8 May Framework 07 shipped: The Indicator Test (VALID).
- 8 May Framework 06 shipped: The Causal Pathway Review (CLEAR).
- 8 May 19 new books added to /shelf; new Ideas Tested cards for the AI assistant on JanVayu, the PolicyDhara Telegram bot, and Some Perspective.
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April 2026
- 10 Apr Frameworks 03 to 05 shipped: Evidence, Scale Decision, Kill Criteria.
- 9 Apr Site launched. Frameworks 01 (Venture Readiness) and 02 (Measurement Checklist) shipped alongside the first eleven blog posts.