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The Bureaucrat Who Did Not Change the World: Review of Dr Duvvuri Subbarao’s “Just a Mercenary”.

Memoirs of retired Indian bureaucrats are one of the most hackneyed genres. They start with the all too familiar humble beginnings…

3 min read11 hours ago

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The Bureaucrat Who Did Not Change the World: Review of Dr Duvvuri Subbarao’s “Just a Mercenary”.

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Karn Satyarthi

Unshackling the Indian State: Review of Karthik Muralidharan’s Accelerating India’s Development

Governments in India are behemoths that most Indians interact with but very few truly understand. Critiques of state capacity in India…

3 min readApr 18, 2024

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Unshackling the Indian State: Review of Karthik Muralidharan’s Accelerating India’s Development

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Karn Satyarthi

The Road Less Taken: Reviewing Varun Grover’s All India Rank

It is only a few times every year that you get to see a Hindi film with real life characters and not just cardboard cutouts. Varun Grover’s…

3 min readFeb 25, 2024

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The Road Less Taken: Reviewing Varun Grover’s All India Rank

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Karn Satyarthi

Revisiting the question of transferability of land in the Santal Parganas.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this piece are purely personal and do not necessarily express the views of the institutions I am…

9 min readJun 22, 2023

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Revisiting the question of transferability of land in the Santal Parganas.

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Karn Satyarthi

The Value of Innovation: Review of Chris Miller’s Chip War

What do we think of when we think of technology? Our imagination often conjures images of mobile applications, digital payments and…

6 min readFeb 6, 2023

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The Value of Innovation: Review of Chris Miller’s Chip War

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Karn Satyarthi

Solving inclusion and exclusion errors in beneficiary selection for government schemes…

The success of government schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Swachh Bharat Mission and the Public Distribution System have often been…

5 min readDec 30, 2022

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Solving inclusion and exclusion errors in beneficiary selection for government schemes…

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Karn Satyarthi

Masaan Revisited

Note: I happened to revisit this article I wrote six years back when I watched Masaan for the first time. The beauty and the depth of the…

4 min readApr 3, 2022

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Masaan Revisited

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Karn Satyarthi

“Hell or High Water” : The story of Sahibganj’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The following article is the first in a series of what I hope will be three articles based on my experience as a public servant during the…

30 min readJun 30, 2021

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“Hell or High Water” : The story of Sahibganj’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Karn Satyarthi

Who goes hungry and why: Poverty, famines and the conscience of Economics

One rarely comes across a book that can legitimately claim to have redefined an entire area of study. Amartya Sen’s seminal essay on…

4 min readNov 3, 2020

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Who goes hungry and why: Poverty, famines and the conscience of Economics

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Karn Satyarthi

Arthashastra: A piece of timeless scholarship

Two ends, common but critical, determine the course of the Arthashastra: an obsession with the promotion of national interest and the…

4 min readOct 25, 2020

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Arthashastra: A piece of timeless scholarship

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Karn Satyarthi

Karn Satyarthi

Officer of the Indian Administrative Service. Interested in governance, economic policy, history, books, films and problem solving.

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