Leo Mirani

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157 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Jul

Leo Mirani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So now you have a guy who has both technical competence as well as authority.

And this combination is important, right?

And he worked within all of the systems that already exist within the Indian government, within the Indian bureaucracy, within systems.

And he produced this thing, him and his very big team, I mean it's not like he did alone, obviously.

They produced this national ID that every Indian now has and that is the foundation for a number of other technologies that we use in India that have made a lot of things very simple.

So the model is there.

India has somehow failed to look at that example and say, how can we apply this to everything else?

It's been applied here and there a little bit, but by and large they use the silly version where you end up with stuff like the Indian Visa website.

So yes, there is some good stuff.

There could be a lot more good stuff, and that's the reason I write about this.

It's not because I'm generally just down on everything, grumpy as I look and sound most of the time.

Leo, thanks for

Grumping.

Always a pleasure.

It's what they pay me for.

The Intelligence from The Economist · Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Bunch of really strange things have been happening in India over the past few weeks.

To start with, Delhi's chief minister, who normally goes around in a convoy of several cars, rode the metro to work one day.

Then a high court judge in central India cycled to work.

A politician in Kashmir, not to be outdone, decided to go by a Tonga, which is a horse-drawn carriage, and the leader of Bihar, he walked all of the 500 or so meters to his office.

But probably the biggest sacrifice of all was made by the elected head of Maharashtra, the state in which I live.

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