KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS 6. A common shape for every promise From here on, every civic outcome is described the same way. The template is the contract between this book and its reader: the same questions, in the same order, every time, so programs can be compared like-for-like. Part Two is where the vision becomes specific: seven promises a society can decide to keep, taken one at a time. To keep them genuinely comparable, and to make unmistakable that they draw on one shared capability rather than seven separate schemes, each chapter answers the same questions in the same order. A reader who learns the shape once can read any program chapter quickly and know exactly where each claim sits, and a decision-maker can lay the seven side by side and choose where to begin on a single, fair basis. The decision to use a rigid template is itself an argument, and worth making explicit. A book that described each civic outcome in its own bespoke shape would invite the reader to treat them as seven separate proposals, each to be evaluated, funded, and built on its own terms, which is precisely the silo model this book exists to refute. The repeated structure does the opposite: by forcing every 98