KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS recoverable as knowledge whether the loop closes or not. This summary compresses material the book sets out in full in Chapter 15 (governance), Chapter 16 (the financial model), Chapter 17 (sequencing), and Appendix C (the first hundred days and the phase gates). A department minded to examine implementation seriously would read those four together. What follows now, beginning at the preface, is the full case in the author’s own voice. 30