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”)”
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The Great Betrayal: How Labour Lost in Both China and India to Capital in the decade 2014-2024
The Shared Tragedy A blue-collar factory worker in Dongguan, China, and a white-collar IT contractor in Bangalore, India—separated by the Himalayas and 3,000 miles—have something heartbreaking in common: over the past decade, both have watched capital owners capture 4–6 times more wealth per person than they did, despite their nations’ spectacular economic growth. In China, GDPContinue reading “The Great Betrayal: How Labour Lost in Both China and India to Capital in the decade 2014-2024”
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”
Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI — Subject: A Proposal to Introduce “Net Catching Efficiency” as an Official Career Metric in International Cricket
Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI To: – Mr. Jay Shah, Chairman, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) – The Chairman and Governing Council, International Cricket Council (ICC) From: M. K. Sudarshan A devoted lover and long-time follower of international cricket Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Email: mksudarshan2002@yahoo.co.in Mobile: +91 9884287078 Date: 26Continue reading “Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI — Subject: A Proposal to Introduce “Net Catching Efficiency” as an Official Career Metric in International Cricket”
How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 3 Concluded)
Human Nature, LDMU, and the Search for “Parama Puruṣārtha” Yet that sequence cannot go on forever. For all the empirical power of Moore’s Law and of Jevons’ Paradox, there is a deeper, more stubborn constant: human nature itself. And human nature, as the law of diminishing marginal utility suggests, is wired for satiation, for aContinue reading “How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 3 Concluded)”
How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 2 of 3)
– Part 2 – How One Blends into the Other At first sight, Jevons’ Paradox and Moore’s Law seem to march in tandem while the law of diminishing marginal utility trails behind, like a conservative chorus whispering, “Beware of excess.” But the deeper one looks, the more the three form a subtle choreography. Start withContinue reading “How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 2 of 3)”
The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)
Confronted with such a pattern, it is unsurprising that two great scriptures of the world — one recent in history, and the other very ancient — the Bible and the Bhagavad Gītā speak not in the language of dispassionate geopolitics, but in the idiom of divine justice and cosmic rectification. It is cruel irony, perhaps,Continue reading “The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)”
Has India’s budget spending on Defence and National Security been as smart and wise as Iran’s turns out to be today ?
Please take a good, long and hard look at the table below . India’s total defence budget outlay has risen 8 fold in the last 25 years ( $11 billion to $91 billion) while Iran’s has risen only 3 times (from around $3 billion to $8 billion in the same period). In 2001, India andContinue reading “Has India’s budget spending on Defence and National Security been as smart and wise as Iran’s turns out to be today ?”
Is India equipped to fight modern conventional and asymmetrical warfare with lethal drones ? 3 Questions.
My 3 questions to AI this morning: The ongoing war in Iran and Ukraine confirm that modern warfare today is prosecuted not with battle tanks and fighter jets but with lethal drones . 1. Is India equipped and weaponised in that department? 2. Is there a major chink in India’s Defence preparedness for modern warfare.Continue reading “Is India equipped to fight modern conventional and asymmetrical warfare with lethal drones ? 3 Questions.”
Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 3 of 3) CONCLUDED
Let it not be misunderstood that today in the Democratic Republic of India, any body — not even an obscure, even maybe obscurantist writer like me — would be foolhardy enough to argue for the Manu Smriti to replace the Constitution of India. That would be sheer political sacrilege today in India… No, none ofContinue reading “Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 3 of 3) CONCLUDED”