What is bracket?

In one line? Bracket is a newsletter with data- and research- driven stories about the world, from agricultural labour in India to opinions about Climate Change in the US, and everything in between. In a little more detail, it’s a slightly awkward, somewhat lengthy, very nerdy newsletter looking at the world from a different lens - laid out with nuance, painstakingly sourced, neutrally framed. In even more detail? You have to buy Bracket dinner first - but you can check out the introductory post that lays out the why and the what.

Who writes Bracket?

Ah, Papa Bracket! (I’m already sorry to have written that, and I promise to never subject you to that if you subscribe.)

I’m Apoorva Bhide, a BITS graduate who works as a Data Scientist for a living. You can follow me on Twitter or Quora. I have been told I have a slightly weird, reportedly terrible sense of humour, and it’s a part of my writing. I suppose we’ll just have to live that, just like we have to live with the fact that there won’t be another season of Community.

What will I get if I subscribe?

A newsletter straight in your inbox every… once in a while. I’m not very prolific, and I’m very self-critical about what I write, which makes me even less so (working on it). At the least, subscribing lets me find you, the reader interested in reading shit like this, and it lets you find me, bearing shit you’re interested in reading - without having to come across it on my Facebook (even I don’t come across my Facebook much).

If you want to read more, please check out the archive. And if you like what you see, please subscribe!

The logo for Bracket, encapsulating the central idea better than a thousand words, is designed by the wonderful Maitrayee Chavan, along with the other theme choices.