From Invisible Children to ICE Detention — The Story So Far | The Sunday Draft LIVE

One Month In — Five episodes. Stories that matter to people paying attention.

This week marks one month of The Sunday Draft, and instead of the usual format, the tables got flipped. Alicia — globetrotter, Substack regular, and the very first person Raj ever went live with — sat across from him and asked the questions.

What followed was an honest, unhurried look at what this show is actually trying to do and why.

Raj talked about how The Sunday Draft came to life — the name, the co-host he found by luck, and the gap he kept seeing: stories that matter getting a blip of coverage and then disappearing. The kind of stories that don't trend but don't go away either.

They walked through the episodes so far. The 46 million children in India invisible to the education system — a number so large it doesn't feel real until someone like Raman puts a face on it. The child psychologist on the front lines of a social media addiction epidemic that nobody wants to call an epidemic yet. The Mohammad Deepak story, where identity and defiance collided in a politically charged corner of India. And the Meenu Batra case — where immigration policy stopped being abstract and became someone's life.

They also talked about what it costs to build something like this alongside a full-time job, what trolls actually signal, and what independence means when the left and right feel equally exhausted.

A month in. Still figuring out the connective tissue. Still showing up every Sunday.

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