KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS actually on offer. The only question the story leaves open is whether the state chooses to be the one that tells it first. If it does, the chapter it writes will not be about artificial intelligence, any more than the literacy chapter was about primers or the Kudumbashree chapter about thrift accounts. It will be about a society that decided, at a particular moment and on purpose, that the small acts which make a place livable, the segregated bag, the worn helmet, the maintained well, the kept welcome, the logged volunteer hour, the attended screening, the surviving tree, would no longer be invisible and unrewarded, and built a permanent, trustworthy, self-funding institution to see them. That is a thing worth being first at, and it is, at bottom, all this book proposes. 275