Release of Missing in Action by Pranay Kotasthane & Raghu S Jaitley releases on ThePrint’ Softcover
Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy by Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley will hit the stands on January 23, 2023 and it will also have a virtual release on ThePrint’s Softcover, an online platform for publishing non-fiction books.
“Outlining the importance of public policy awareness, the book says “better public policy understanding will raise the level of public discourse. Much of our current public discourse is a partisan sniping contest. Policy is judged not by its consequences, sometimes not even by the intentions behind it, but by the party—and sometimes just one person—that backs it. When this happens, policy discussions are bound to descend into identarian one-upmanship contests”.
The book also devotes space to debunking myths regarding policy and politics, as well as explaining how the two are woven together. Beliefs such as policy is ineffective, or that the two are disparate entities, are disproven.
Kotasthane and Jaitley describe their new release as a “pop public policy book” that lets “stories of Indian experiences take center stage”. Typically, books about policy would use examples and refer to events outside the country, situations that stem from different socio-political contexts.”
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