Today my guests are my colleagues Shreyas Narla and Kadambari Shah. Shreyas is a research scholar and Kadambari is a research associate at the Mercatus Center with the India program. We talked about completing five years of the 1991 Project, how it started, it's scope, the oral histories of the reformers in 1991, papers, essays, fellowships and much more.

Recorded July 10th, 2026.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:44 - The Origin Story

00:11:07 - Launching the Oral Histories Initiative

00:20:47 -Documentation and Memory

00:37:47 - Building the Repository

00:46:18 - The 1991 Project Website

00:58:11 - Walking with Giants

01:06:45 - Where are all the Women?

01:11:27 - Making Economic Reforms 'Sexy' Again

01:22:43 - The Importance of Intergenerational Interaction

01:34:33 - Incubating New Talent

01:41:39 - Gratitude and Acknowledgments

01:53:19 - Outro