மரக்கறி Vegetarian food என்பதற்கு “மரக்கறி உணவு” என்ற சொல்தான் பயன்பாட்டில் இருந்தது. அதை மாற்றுகிறேன் பேர்வழி என்று யாரோ ஒருவர் “அசைவம்” என்று ஒரு பொருத்தமற்ற சொல்லை உபயோகத்தில் விட, அரசாங்கம் உட்பட அனைவரும் அதையே பயன்படுத்தத் தொடங்கி விட்டனர். சிவனை வணங்குதலே “சைவம்” எனப்படும். சைவத்தைப் பின்பற்றுவோர் சைவர். அவர்கள் அனைவரும் vegetarian ஆகத்தான் இருக்க வேண்டிய கட்டாயமும் இல்லை. கண்ணப்ப நாயனாரே சைவர்தான். “பிள்ளைக் கறி” சமைக்கச் சொன்னவரும், சைவர் உருவில் வந்தContinue reading “My Semantic Note on “Saivam” and “Asaivam””
Category Archives: Environmentalism
India, AI, and the Question of Ownership: Do we really have a grand-strategy for the AI future?
by M. K. Sudarshan July 6, 2026: Chennai, India A YouTube video recently circulated widely because it captured something that many people have begun to feel but have not yet fully named. https://youtu.be/UfyxN46tCz8?si=DeZxeZ_XhW_7IEtp The video pointed to a striking reality: millions of Indians are already helping teach machines how to think, see, understand, and act.Continue reading “India, AI, and the Question of Ownership: Do we really have a grand-strategy for the AI future?”
Energy, Progress, and the Future We Can Afford
by M.K.Sudarshan July 4, 2026: Chennai, India An exploration of civilization’s hidden dependence on energy, the warnings of Robert J. Gordon, and the possibility that the future will be more advanced yet less abundant than the age that came before. The Hidden Axis of Civilization There is a strange and revealing fact about human civilization:Continue reading “Energy, Progress, and the Future We Can Afford”
Entrepreneurship is the Virtue-Signalling of Modern Corporate Capitalism (aka. “the new world order”)
Overview In contemporary political economy, entrepreneurship is often presented as a morally elevated force of innovation, risk-bearing, and social progress. Yet the structure of the modern corporate economy suggests a different interpretation: entrepreneurship functions largely as the legitimating language through which capital organizes production, appropriates profits, and normalizes an unequal distribution of national wealth. AcrossContinue reading “Entrepreneurship is the Virtue-Signalling of Modern Corporate Capitalism (aka. “the new world order”)”
From Gandhā Bharat to Vande Bharat: The Road Not Yet Travelled
Preamble: Fifty Years of the Same Observation In 1964, V.S. Naipaul arrived in India for the first time—a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry returning to his ancestral homeland. What he found shocked him. In his travelogue An Area of Darkness, he wrote a passage that would become infamous: “Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, besideContinue reading “From Gandhā Bharat to Vande Bharat: The Road Not Yet Travelled”
The song of the Madras “IIT-ians”: a song of hope or lamentation?
Listening to this song filled my mind with mixed feelings . As a schoolboy in the 1960s I remember walking or bycycling 🚴 to school along the River Adyar . On a clear day I could see the river flow by in all its silent glory … the waters were clean , the river banksContinue reading “The song of the Madras “IIT-ians”: a song of hope or lamentation?”
The “Tolkappiyam” and Melkote Tirunarayanapuram: sombre thoughts
In 2017 , I had darshan of Lord Narasimha the deity on the sacred hill of Melkote . From the ramparts of the temple I took the opportunity to shoot a video clip of the lush green and vast landscape around Tirunarayana Puram. What a marvellous panoramic breathtaking scenery! In Sri Vaishnava sampradayam we callContinue reading “The “Tolkappiyam” and Melkote Tirunarayanapuram: sombre thoughts”
The world has had enough of Economists … It now needs Meta-Economists
This Infograph above tells me a sad story which I know to be so true and yet of which, alas, Climate-Change warriors of the whole, wide world are in utter denial. If you look closely at the chart above you’ll see that all the best years of robust economic activity in the last 20 yearsContinue reading “The world has had enough of Economists … It now needs Meta-Economists”
THE Open-Letter to SATHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV-ji that I did not write
I watched the above video-clip and it made me think : With a little bit of help from PM Modi and other friends , Sathguru might even soon be angling for a Nobel Prize … who knows . Best of luck to him . 🙏 I for one will not grudge that. But this isContinue reading “THE Open-Letter to SATHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV-ji that I did not write”