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Jatan Mehta

Jul 16, 2022

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Social media, where a teaser post about your article gets a better response than your actual article

Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October

Follow my blogs on social media that doesn’t suck!

On the gap between voter turnouts in the US and Indian elections