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!

Claude Must Not Make Advaita the Ventriloquist of All Vedānta

Anthropic’s engagement with Indian philosophical traditions is welcome—but it must not mistake one influential Vedāntic school for the entire intellectual inheritance of India.

The Measure of Both Machine and Man: “Homo Sapiens” Vs “Homo Faber”

• The evolution from Homo sapiens to Homo faber
• Human Dignity vs Human Abasement by the Machine
• Chaplin’s Modern Times and Huxley’s Brave New World as twin warnings
• The double-edged nature of machines (lawn mower, vacuum, computer, auto-rickshaw)
• The AI question and the Pope’s warning about human control
• The call to keep Homo sapiens sovereign over Homo faber
• The final personal challenge: “Am I using this machine to deepen my life, or is it using me to thin it out?”