Why should you read Salem Junction?

We thought long and hard about this, and even hired some IIM types to construct a value proposition deck for this newsletter, and then we felt that there is really no particularly good reason to subscribe to this newsletter. I mean, there is no pressing need to ponder upon the facial hair of erstwhile Chola emperors or packets of Vibhuti that were once mistaken for cocaine by JFK airport customs officials. Or learn about 18th century Orlov Trotter horses named Hans that could do advanced arithmetic. But we can assure you that the overall information density and utility of Salem Junction far exceeds that of watching Indian news television for an entire week. We might talk about dogs, and we might talk about whistles, and even dogs that can whistle and whistles shaped like dogs, but we avoid dog-whistling.