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GIFFENMAN Song Catalog 22 July 2026

 

Song Title

Category

Theme

1

Rules Based Order

Deception, Economics, Power

Is the world being run on rules?

2

You’re on the List

Economics, Humanity, Knowledge, Power, Technology

Surveillance by technology

3

The Enigma Code

Language

Understanding what the English mean

4

We A’int Skint

Deception, Economics, Humanity

Modern Monetary Theory

5

The Perfect Crime

Economics, Humanity, Power, Technology

The decisions of doctors and algorithms

6

Rain don’t care what the forecast says

Economics, Knowledge, Power

Natural events unlike economic events are not influenced by human prediction

7

GDP - The Magic Metric

Deception, Economics

The weakness of worshipping GDP

8

Bhramanappana

Deception, Humanity, Knowledge

Brownian movement of life

9

The Devil is the Definition

Deception, Economics, Power

The weakness of definitions

10

Behata Jaaye

Deception, Humanity, Knowledge

The Brownian motion of life in Hinglish

11

Tax the Rich

Economics, Power

Tax wealth not income

12

The Invisible Lie

Deception, Economics, Language, Power

The limits of markets

13

Ben Stokes

Humanity, Knowledge

14

Why only economics dear?

Economics, Knowledge

A reply to my wife

15

Christmas Stomp

Language

16

Ceteris Paribus

Deception, Economics, Language

The assumption underpinning forecasts

17

Perfect Information

Deception, Economics, Language

Do we have this before we make decisions?

18

The times they are a changing back

Language, Power

International Relations

19

Yudhishtira’s dog

Deception, Humanity, Knowledge

Do we listen to our conscience

20

56 The Drug for my Father in Law

Humanity, Knowledge

Malayalee card game 56

21

Stop Pretending you wouldn’t leave India

Deception, Economics, Humanity, Power

How Indian behave with visiting NRIs

22

Patti Pattu (Malayalam)

Language

Phrases involving dogs

23

Sreenivasan predicted my life (Malayalam)

Humanity, Knowledge, Language

Eulogy to Sreenivasan

24

Abhimanyu Reincarnate

Economics, Knowledge, Power, Technology

Creative Destruction

25

Ise Roti Keh Do (Hindi)

Deception, Humanity, Knowledge, Language, Power

Sticking to outdated myths

26

Where’s the Research

Deception, Economics, Knowledge, Language, Power

How the elites dismiss an  argument

27

Only Human

Deception, Knowledge, Language

Hypocrisy

28

Insaan he to Hoon (Hindi)

Deception, Knowledge, Language

Hypocrisy

29

Joroo ka Bhai (Hindi)

Humanity, Language

Brother-in-law

30

Dhobi ka Kutta (Hindi)

Deception, Economics, Humanity, Power

Not belonging anywhere

31

Celebrate New Year

Deception, Knowledge, Humanity

Recovery from depression

32

Don’t be Serious

Deception, Knowledge, Humanity, Power

It will end soon enough


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