by M.K. Sudarshan August 2, 2026 : Chennai, India Here below is an imaginary, freewheeling conversation between a bright young Philosophy major student and the Unknown Sri Vaishnava Characters: Setting:A bright, sunlit stone-pillared pavilion (Mandapam) attached to a historic temple in South India. The warm afternoon light washes over the intricately carved pillars. Scattered palm-leafContinue reading ““The Threshold of the Infinite”: A Socratic Dialogue in the Ubhaya Vedanta Tradition”
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A Movement of Youthful India or is it Urban Naxalism 2026 Model?
by M.K.Sudarshan July 26, 2026: Chennai, India The forced resignation of Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is being trumpeted about by the youthful street agitators belonging to the Cockroach Janata Party of India as triumph of Youth. Other professional “social activists” like Yogendra Yadav , Arundhati Roy, Arvind Kejriwal , T.M.Krishna et al are waxing exuberant overContinue reading “A Movement of Youthful India or is it Urban Naxalism 2026 Model?”
How much does mankind spend on destroying itself ?
by M.K.Sudarshan July 26, 2026: Chennai, India A comparative perspective on the Financial and Strategic Costs that America imposes on the whole world 1. Asymmetry of Engagement The financial and economic ledger of the ongoing conflict in West Asia reveals a starkly asymmetric distribution of costs across the three primary blocks involved as seen inContinue reading “How much does mankind spend on destroying itself ?”
“Ekam sath viprah: bahudah vadanti”: is not about Inclusivity but Universality
Arguing that the Rg Veda’s ideal of “Ekam Sath” is not an inclusive one and that it refers only to the various gods mentioned in a specific line of the concerned Rg Veda text is founded on misunderstanding. If the argument is to be accepted then the Universality of the very idea of Dharma upon which the Vedic Faith is founded gets negated!
Part 4: The Kurukshetra Hard-Stop: A Short History of Strategic Hubris (Conclusion)
“The Kurukshetra Limit” that no War in the world could nor will ever be able to defy.
The Semantics of Slaughter: Why Our Threats Are “Statecraft” and Theirs Are “Terror”
An unvarnished analysis of global double standards: why American military ultimatums are sanitized as statecraft while Iranian slogans are branded as terror.
One nation chants slogans. The other systematically bombs sovereign states back to the “Stone Age.” Why does the global community brand symbolic rhetoric as terrorism while treating actual destruction as statecraft?My latest Op-Ed pulls back the curtain on semantic imperialism: [Link]
Part 3: The Kurukshetra Hard-Stop: A Short History of Strategic Hubris
“The Kurukshetra Limit” that no War in the world could nor will ever be able to defy.
Part 2: The Kurukshetra Hard-Stop: A Short History of Strategic Hubris
“The Kurukshetra Limit” that no War could or will ever defy on earth !
Part 1: The Kurukshetra Hard-Stop: A Short History of Strategic Hubris
by M.K.Sudarshan July 15, 2026: Chennai, India From the moment the first human wielded a chiselled stone to enforce his will, the story of mankind became inextricably bound to the evolution of political violence. Warfare is not merely a chronicle of bloodshed. It is the ultimate, dark testament to human ingenuity. Across millennia, the finestContinue reading “Part 1: The Kurukshetra Hard-Stop: A Short History of Strategic Hubris”
What’s the American war habit? Turn tragedy into memory, memory into regret, and regret into another round of exceptional self-justification
America often enters war in the language of necessity and emerges in the language of regret. This op-ed traces that familiar pattern from past conflicts to Ukraine and Iran, asking who pays the real price when American exceptionalism meets the realities of war.