On the Record

Before the books, there were the columns: arguments made in the open, against deadlines, on live events — governance, policing, and the order that holds India together. This volume collects them. Among the pieces inside:

• India Is Paying a Fear Tax — the column that became the book
• The Audacity of Order — the doctrine, in its first thousand words
• Merchants of Outrage
• Crisis Communication: Why Silence Makes Emergencies Worse
• Change the Operating System
• Why Do We Need 'The Prannay Kapur Act'?

Read the columns and you watch the three forthcoming books being assembled in real time — the origin trail, on the record.