Now
This month
on the desk.
A page of the present tense. What is open in the notebooks and browser tabs right now. Updated by hand when something changes, which is more often than the blog makes it look.
Last updated: 9 April 2026
Actively working on
- An evaluation for a South Asian climate resilience fund, currently in the instrument-design phase.
- A field guide draft for practitioners on how to read an RCT without being read by one.
- Quiet work on the JanVayu citizen testimony layer, pulling the archive into shape.
Writing
- The Measurement Trap — chapter three, the one on under-counting unpaid work.
- The Hate Effect — still in the outline stage, taking its time.
- An essay for Medium on parenting in the age of air-quality advisories. In the head, not yet on the page.
Reading
- Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond
- The 2026 Union Budget documents, slowly, with a red pen.
- Everything Katherine Boo has ever published, in rotation.
Saying no to
- New retainers until July. The calendar needs its edges back.
- Work that cannot name the person it is for.
- Anything described as "thought leadership" without a question attached.