China had the labs. It had trained virologists. It had built a health emergency response system designed to catch exactly this kind of threat. Yet it took another three weeks for authorities to publicly confirm what mounting evidence was already suggesting: that the virus could spread from person to person. That contradiction sat at the… Continue reading When Silence Is the Rational Choice: What Wuhan Teaches Us About Behaviour and Capacity
On April 9th, 2026, the Harris Lecture Series brought Professor John Mark Hansen of the University of Chicago to the Indian School of Public Policy. His subject was the Manhattan Project, the wartime effort that built the first atomic bomb. He did not come to recount the physics. He came to ask how a society… Continue reading Manhattan Project: Lessons for Public Policy and Emerging Technologies
Cheistha Kochhar Nudge Awards
Celebrating ethical behavioural innovations improving lives across India.
