Sudhir Kumar Rao
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Occasional essays by Sudhir Kumar Rao on the documents that shape decisions at the senior institutional level, the discipline their writing requires, and the judgements that separate a useful draft from one that fails before the second paragraph is read.
Most institutional documents are lost before the reader reaches the second page. The reason is rarely the analysis beneath. It is almost always what the first paragraph asked the reader to do, and how.
Read the essay →Published April 2026
A 400-page non-fiction work on artificial intelligence, the fears it is generating inside the technology community, and what those fears reveal about where the industry is heading.
Read the essay →Published March 2026
A techno-economic feasibility study for a marine infrastructure project in the Gulf, and what a document originating from the wrong context costs.
Read the essay →Published February 2026
The distinction matters more than most principals realise when they commission the work. One preserves a voice. The other constructs one.
Read the essay →Published January 2026
A ghostwriting engagement and what it taught about the relationship between memory and truth.
Read the essay →Published December 2025
A family constitution written too early becomes a compromise on paper that fails in the first real test.
Read the essay →Published November 2025
On the craft of writing institutional documents that endure.
Read the essay →Published October 2025