by M.K.Sudarshan August 7, 2026: Chennai, India
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Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer
by M.K. Sudarshan August 6, 2026: Chennai, India IntroductionThe global architecture is fracturing in real-time. From the devastating missile strikes in the Persian Gulf to the shifting security matrices of the Indo-Pacific, the modern world feels increasingly chaotic. To make sense of it all, the foreign policy establishment routinely relies on two towering academic frameworks:Continue reading “Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer”
How to make sense of Bibi-Trump’s meaningless two wars on Iran
After I heard President Donald Trump’s April 7, 2026, Truth Social post laying bare the stakes for Iran and the whole world: “A whole civilization [will] die tonight never to [be] brought back… complete demolition by 12 o’clock… over a period of four hours”, I for one even in faraway Chennai, India couldn’t help feelingContinue reading “How to make sense of Bibi-Trump’s meaningless two wars on Iran”
“Six blind men, the elephant and a Tower of Babel”: How intellectuals think they really are making sense out of a senseless world
We in India believe ourselves to be equal intellectuals of those in the West who over the years have fed us with specious theories and treatises on how to make sense of the world and all its geopolitical tumult and historic tragedies. For many years now, I myself have been an avid reader and followerContinue reading ““Six blind men, the elephant and a Tower of Babel”: How intellectuals think they really are making sense out of a senseless world”
Ayodhya Ram Temple is Vedic Civilization’s way of saying, “I’m not going down the Egyptian Pharaonic way”.
Between 1993 and 2020, as an expatriate corporate manager I lived and worked in … and travelled through …. several Arabic-Islamic countries in the GCC ( Arabian Gulf Council countries) and MENA (Middle East and North Africa countries). From my various resident-bases in Bahrain, Kuwait City, Cairo and then Riyadh, my work took me onContinue reading “Ayodhya Ram Temple is Vedic Civilization’s way of saying, “I’m not going down the Egyptian Pharaonic way”.”
Romila Thapar’s “tunnel view” of Indian History
The renowned and much feted historian of yesteryears , Romila Thapar, has published a new book of “essays and reflections”. And today’s The Hindu (18 June 2023) carries in its prominent column a very interesting interview conducted with her by way of promoting and endorsing the book. I reproduce the interview below in extenso. AfterContinue reading “Romila Thapar’s “tunnel view” of Indian History”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 38
Between 1925 CE and about the turn of the 21st century CE, the Sri Vaishnavas of the community of “ubaya-vedantins” suffered, in various degrees of intensity, the severe trauma, as it were, of a deep identity crisis brought about by profound social churning all around them in the larger outside world that simply overtook andContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 38″