One of the most thought-provoking Op-Eds I’ve read in a long , long time ! The history lessons that I was always made to learn back when I was in school and university spoke glowingly about 2 magnificent achievements of the Indian National Congress Party soon after Independence : 1. The “reunification 500 of PrincelyContinue reading “I can mourn my country’s History but I can’t ever redress it …”
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The Tamil word பூகோளம் (bhukolam) and its rich Sanskritic roots
After watching the video-clip above, if you are intrigued with the word பூகோளம்…, you are also likely to wonder how old the word would be and how it originated. The Tamil word “பூகோளம்” (pūgōḷam) means “globe” or “the terrestrial globe,” referring to the Earth as a spherical object. It is a compound of “பூ” (earth/land)Continue reading “The Tamil word பூகோளம் (bhukolam) and its rich Sanskritic roots”
The unbearable lightness of being a language-hypocrite
What amazes me about the ongoing “language war” between TN and the Centre is the canard about policy “imposition” … It makes me think we Indians have really no sense of our own history … And hence, our lack of shame about ourselves as a people. We forget that throughout history we had no qualms aboutContinue reading “The unbearable lightness of being a language-hypocrite”
The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded
“THE TECHNICIANS” (or rather the TECHNOCRACY) “There is not much to be expected from the third group of Anglicized Hindus, and therefore there is not also much to be said…” … that’s how dismissively if not disparagingly does Nirad Chaudhury write about Technicians (or technocracy) of India in his 1965 book, “The Continent of Circe“.Continue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded”
The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-2 of 3)
Post-1947, it was the Anglicised-Hindu Class that became the chosen people upon whom all the dreams and hopes of Jawaharlal Nehru for a “modern India” rested. Nirad C. Chaudhury described them — “….as a separate ethnic entity with its own collective psychology. It is constituted by the Hindus of the Anglicized upper middle-class, and isContinue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-2 of 3)”
Why both Meta and I think Prime Minister Modi is very naive and over-ambitious about the AI Revolution
I sat down with Meta to have a long but such an engrossing conversation on what PM Modi said in his speech at the World AI Summit held in Paris yesterday 11th February 2025. Below is the transcript: DISCLAIMER: I am not a Luddite but I like to believe I’m always for the underdogs ofContinue reading “Why both Meta and I think Prime Minister Modi is very naive and over-ambitious about the AI Revolution”
The Trump Tariff Policy : my Q&A with Meta AI (10 Questions)
1. How will Canada retaliate to U.S. tariffs President Trump announced yesterday ? Canada is likely to retaliate against the U.S. tariffs announced by President Trump, and the extent of the retaliation will depend on various factors, including the level of tariffs imposed by the U.S. and the Canadian government’s strategy. According to a report byContinue reading “The Trump Tariff Policy : my Q&A with Meta AI (10 Questions)”
O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!
“Birthright citizenship was, if you look back when this was passed and made, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America. “Everybody coming in, and totally unqualified people with perhaps unqualified children. This wasn’t meant forContinue reading “O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!”
Book Review in the London FT of Manu Pillai’s “Gods, Guns and Missionaries”
A good email friend of mine Arun Bewoor, a Parsi by faith but a very accomplished ex-CEO of a multinational company in India forwarded to me a email below asking me a question: My answer to him was this below: It all depends on what exactly one has in mind when using the word Hinduism. 1.Continue reading “Book Review in the London FT of Manu Pillai’s “Gods, Guns and Missionaries””
Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.1 of 3.2
Finally, signing off on his rather prurient essay titled “The Parrot’s Erotic Secret” published in The Hindu dt. 19 January 2025, Devdutt Pattnaik urges his readers, especially womenfolk, to go and read an obscure and most probably a Jainist literary work in Sanskrit called “shukasaptati”… He wholeheartedly endorses the 70 lewd tales in that ancientContinue reading “Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.1 of 3.2”