Kavur, AP, India. 1959.
Mathematician by education,
IT Architect by profession,
Psychologist, Sociologist,
Philosopher, and Reformer by passion.
The 120 Days That Broke India
Inside the 1946 Cabinet Mission
In early 1946, the British Empire was exhausted. Battered by World War II, facing mutinies within the Royal Indian Navy, and dealing with intense global pressure, Britain knew its time in India was up. But a massive question loomed: Could Britain exit India without tearing the subcontinent apart? ...
Dependency Machine
What Went Wrong Around 1947?
Very early in his entry into Indian politics, after returning from South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi criticized elite metropolitan lawyers — especially those in centers like Bombay — for protecting British legal frameworks and cultivating an aloof, westernized leadership style that failed to ...
A New Preamble for India
Rewriting the Most Important Sentence in the Life of a Nation-State
There are two things that are core to human nature: collective organization and continuous adaptation. First, as social beings, we form groups — in fact, nested ones — based on shared interests, aspirations, values, identities, and circumstances: from a cricket team to a community, from ...
All we need is 543 good leaders…!
Are you one of those who dream of a better India — free from corruption, nepotism, and sectarian politics; with better roads, schools, hospitals, cleaner rivers, and so on — but feel cynical that it will never happen? In fact, it can. All we need is to elect just 543 — not ...
What is happening in politics and governance?
Today, corruption and nepotism have seeped deep into politics and governance, undermining institutions and slowing national progress. Those who are supposed to keep them in check are often the offenders themselves. Divisive rhetoric and polarizing policies are poisoning society. Those who are ...
Bharati Lipi and Code
A Common Lipi and Code for all Indian languages
India is known for its unity in diversity, and our languages reflect this. Indian languages are phonetic and share the same Varnamala — the same vowels and consonants in the same sequence, with only minor variations. But the scripts themselves differ. You cannot read your own name if it is ...
Indian Army: The Caste angle.
From British India to Independent India.
The structural development of the Indian Army from the 18th century to the post-independence era is closely linked with shifting recruitment policies. Over nearly three centuries, military enlistment criteria transitioned from regional necessity to caste-based frameworks, and finally into a ...
Hillbilly Elegy
A book I never thought I would read,But now recommend everyone to read. Among the recent spate of young politicians, J. D. Vance caught my interest from a sociology and psychology point of view, which are subjects of interest to me. That a “Never Trumper” politician could become the Vice ...
Pacifism is Untenable, Unfortunately
Like most people, I’d love to live in a peaceful world where everyone is fair, nice, gentle and kind. But given human nature, that’s asking for utopia. There is plenty of aggression in the world, whether we like it or not, and no one has yet discovered a genuinely pacifist way to get rid of ...
Democracy and Muslim Leadership
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar discusses Muslim Leadership’s attitude towards Democracy
From Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s “The Partition of India”. There is thus a stagnation not only in the social life but also in the political life of the Muslim community of India. The Muslims have no interest in politics as such. Their predominant interest is religion. This can be easily seen by the ...