There was no need to bring the cliche of cows on streets
What makes India different is the heady combo of -
Very high population density
Low state capacity
Democratic set up with numerous interest groups
As state capacity improves , things will change
But no need to cite Indian culture as super peculiar and the cause of chaos
I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between making a living and making a life. In the times to come, AI will get increasingly better at the skills that we've used to make a living. Our imperative will be to instead make lives. Not artificial lives. Or artificial lives. But our own lives and of those we love. As machines get better at answering, and solving what they are asked, our work is to get better at asking, at making, creating, and deciding which questions are worth a life, and refusing to outsource that.
The hard sciences from the Indian past are making a comeback to popular imagination.
This will be a great decade of rediscovery and propagation. We have been too nostalgic, and too defensive, for too long.
The task now is to restore these systems to their own terms, test them honestly, and let them speak again in a language the present can hear.
That work has begun, and it will define the years ahead.
Jai Dvārikādhīśa.
Presenting the second issue of Bodha's Newsletter.
This monthly newsletter features 3 new long-reads, updates on our ongoing research projects, and registration invitations for upcoming Anveshi chapters, and an exciting online course.
https://t.co/VxhX4kwvPi
Course Announcement-
Civilization Theory - Dhatus as Civilizational Code
To read the dhatus is to read the operating system of Bharata. Join @saamaanyafreaky in decoding them as the source code of Bharata's civilization.
Read more and register-
https://t.co/iL14b1L9xs
spent quite some time with @grok build, getting it to make me gui to manage site seo, wiki and stuff.
grok seemed a lot more proactive, well-planned, in its approach. its one-shot design leagues ahead of codex, didn't need no skills.
look forward to playing more.
Earlier this month we launched our newsletter, and Issue 1 of Scrolls of Aryavarta - a creative project blending history and storytelling.
Here, @saamaanyafreaky takes us through an autobiographical account of the name, and the ambition behind it -
https://t.co/CQ2sEzsm34
The next chapter of Bodha Anveshi is here.
This time, we are heading to Badami for an immersive yatra through the evolution of Hindu temple architecture in the historic capital region of the Badami Chalukyas.
Dates: 14th-18th August 2026
Register here: https://t.co/Tn7Zw6LYBr
Between two 'upsets' - Bengal and Tamil Nadu - Assam will be assumed as 'expected', but frankly that's the most impressive victory. Muslim population even higher than Bengal, Congress trying all dirty tricks, infiltrator problem, and yet @himantabiswa would be back, stronger!