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  "title": "India in Global Context: The Attention Economy Is Not Only an Indian Story",
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  "thesis": "India's attention-extraction challenges are not unique; they are a mobile-first, price-sensitive variant of a global pattern, and India's scale gives its regulatory and design choices outsized influence.",
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