KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS A reader’s exercise: configuring the eighth program If the central claim is true, that this is one machine, not seven ideas; then a reader who has finished Part Two should be able to configure the eighth program without help. This short chapter is the test. The seven programs were chosen because each is visible, ownable by an existing department, and verifiable today. But the institution’s value is precisely that the list is not fixed. To prove that the machine is general rather than bespoke, work through an eighth outcome the book has not covered, using only the template from Chapter 6. Take the care of public property, bus shelters, public toilets, libraries, parks, the small shared assets that decay through nobody’s fault and everybody’s neglect. Begin with the behaviour to make ordinary. Citizens already half-want clean, working public assets; what stops the curve is that reporting a broken tap or a defaced shelter goes nowhere visible, and maintaining one earns nothing. The missing piece is the same missing piece as everywhere else: a visible, rewarded, competed-over loop. Now the verified action: a citizen photographs a public asset 203