Category Archives: America

In God We Trust: The Mother of All Trust Deficits — and the Death and Resurrection of Trust

Is “In God We Trust” a prayer—or a confession?

We print trust on currency, promise it in elections, demand it from banks, courts, doctors, journalists, and algorithms—then watch it thin beneath the winds of betrayal, spin, and institutional failure.

Beginning tomorrow: “In God We Trust: The Mother of All Trust Deficits—and the Death and Resurrection of Trust.”
Nine dialogues between two students of a Vedic university in South India—Ānanda, the restless sceptic, and Madhava, the contemplative Vedāntin—move from Eden’s first broken trust to the modern crisis of credibility, media, democracy, and institutional entropy.

At the centre lies a Sri Vaishnava question: when every earthly refuge trembles, can the soul find its final shelter in mahāviśvāsam—unshakeable trust in the Lord’s grace?

Nine days. Nine dialogues. One question: can Trust rise again?

Narayana! Narayana! Narayana!

Is America a rogue state?

At the 81st UNGA, President Trump declared “to the victor belong the spoils.” Explore how his administration’s mass withdrawal from 66 global pacts—along with sudden H-1B curbs and oil tariffs affecting India—is rewriting international statecraft, pushing the world away from reciprocity and toward a new era of hyper-sovereignty and anarchy.

The Illusion of Failure: Why the Wars in Iran and Ukraine Are Going Exactly as per Plan, and Why Huntington is Not Dead

Discover why media narratives of Western failure in Ukraine and Iran are an illusion.

This Op-Ed exposes the financial oligarchy and civilisational architecture driving the 21st-century global order.

In the “Alice in Wonderland” of the World’s Central Banks, how our World is Hostage to the Dollar, and the US is Hostage to its Own Debt.

What happens when a veteran Chartered Accountant tries to explain $40+ trillion in sovereign debt to his engineer son, whose head is stuck in the mud?

A fiery dinner-table debate about an economy where the world is hostage to the dollar, and the US is hostage to its own debt.

“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilisation?” — Part II of 2

“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilisation?”“I think it’s a good idea.”

A century after Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famously sharp retort to a condescending British press, the global architecture he challenged faces an unprecedented twilight.In this new two-part long-form essay, I take a bird’s-eye view of the last 500 years of global history.

From the violent internal fractures of pre-industrial Europe to the cold, zero-sum geopolitical chessboards of Sir Halford Mackinder, the essay explores how Western Civilisation successfully turned its localized concepts into a global monoculture—often by ruthlessly marginalizing alternative frameworks.

Today, as the ten great ideological pillars of this half-millennium framework face systematic collapse, the world is stepping into a profound ideological void.📖 Read the full deep dive here:

“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilisation?” — Part I of 2

A century after Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famously sardonic critique of Western Civilisation, the global monoculture he challenged faces an unprecedented twilight.

Spanning the volatile centuries before the Industrial Revolution to the cold, zero-sum geopolitical chessboards of Halford Mackinder, this two-part long-form essay traces how the West exported its systems through military and financial might while aggressively silencing alternative ideas. As the ten great ideological pillars of this 500-year-old framework face systemic collapse, humanity now steps into an ideological void.

Explore a bird’s-eye view of history, the inquisitional nature of institutional orthodoxy, and why Gandhi’s inscrutable retort remains the ultimate epitaph for an empire in retreat.

The Sabbatical Solution (The Gorbachev Redux)

A Friendly Warning from India to the American Midwest The Sabbatical Solution: An Open Letter to the American Heartland What if the best way to save the American century is to step off the global chessboard entirely? Writing as a friend from India, “The Unknown Sri Vaishnava” delivers a blunt, numbers-backed warning to the averageContinue reading “The Sabbatical Solution (The Gorbachev Redux)”

Sea Turtles vs. Borderless Icons: How China Weaponized Irritation to Conquer Tech While India Watched from the C-Suite

By M.K.Sudarshan 16 August 2026: Chennai, India “The Indian diaspora built a protective financial shield around India, using software wealth to bankroll domestic consumption and stabilize the national treasury. The Chinese diaspora, by contrast, acted as a technological spearhead, injecting Silicon Valley capital and IP directly into China’s veins to build a domestic industrial superpower that could eventuallyContinue reading “Sea Turtles vs. Borderless Icons: How China Weaponized Irritation to Conquer Tech While India Watched from the C-Suite”

Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of Both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer (Concluded)

by M.K.Sudarshan August 7, 2026: Chennai, India

OP-ED: THE HORMUZ RANSOM—HOW UNCHECKED POWER IS SINKING THE GLOBAL COMMONS

by M. K. Sudarshan August 5, 2026: Chennai, India It would be entirely lawful and morally imperative for the rest of the world to demand that the United States and Israel pick up the tab for every single transit fee, insurance hike, and re-routing cost incurred in Hormuz. Part 1: The Institutional Collapse and theContinue reading “OP-ED: THE HORMUZ RANSOM—HOW UNCHECKED POWER IS SINKING THE GLOBAL COMMONS”