KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS disclosed rather than hidden. On the evidence presented, it clears the bar for further, more detailed examination by the department or agency concerned; it does not ask for, and should not receive, any commitment beyond that examination at this stage. A measured next step The proportionate response to a book of this kind is neither adoption nor dismissal, but examination. A department minded to look further could begin by reading three things that contain the entire case in compressed form: the opening manifesto, the onepage framework in Appendix A, and the chapter written as a direct answer to a sceptical reader (Chapter 23). It could then direct its own specialists to stress-test the parts that matter most to it, using the map below, and form its own view on whether a small, bounded pilot would be worth designing. Nothing in the book requires more than that as a first step, and nothing in this brief should be read as recommending more. TO EXAMINE TH E RE LE VA N T P A RT OF TH E B OOK The core idea and the evidence The preface and Chapters 1 behind it and 2 Whether the economics are credible Chapter 16; Appendix F (evidence dossier) 21