The writings form a living archive of resistance, responsibility, and reimagination, stretching from Tamil Nadu’s fields to the Arctic ice sheets. At one end are grounded inquiries into farming and local markets, such as the twin editions of Natural Farming in Tamil Nadu – A Status Report in English and Tamil, which map a landscape where soil, seed, and policy collide. Alongside this sits UnBranding – Local Market Syntax for a Climate Changed World, inviting readers to see the bazaar not just as a place of exchange but as a grammar of culture and climate resilience, and *Potential Unlimited – Ethics from the Life of Ordinary People, which treats everyday lives as ethical classrooms rather than footnotes to “big” history.
Running through the “big articles” is a biographical and ethical arc: Walking out of the corporate 27 yrs chronicles a deliberate exit from corporate consulting into the uncertain terrain of social transformation, while Who is responsible for the local economy? pushes the reader to see economic life as a shared moral project rather than an abstract system. Pieces like Ethical Challenges of Agri-Tech Entrepreneurs and Shopkeepers or Identity Keepers probe the fragile line between innovation and extraction, asking when enterprise becomes a vehicle for dignity instead of dispossession. In contrast, the intimate Internship with Farmers and Provocation as Motivation read like field notes from the frontlines of learning, where discomfort itself becomes a pedagogy.
Threaded month by month, the 2025 blog entries read like a diary of inner and outer transitions. January’s reflections move from the credibility of labels in Organic Certification – can we trust it in India? to the interrogation of imported psychological frames in What is wrong with Maslow?, the quiet rebellion of Re-learning to live away from camera, and the bridge between dharma and enterprise in Social Entrepreneurship, Start-ups and Swami Vivekananda. These sit alongside the inward turn of Listening to the small voice within you, as if to remind that any transformation of systems must begin with a re-tuning of conscience. February’s Entrepreneur Opportunity – Chief Guest Talk then translates that inner work into outer pathways for youth standing at the edge of risk and responsibility.
As the year advances, the writing widens its lens from personal crises to civilizational questions. March’s Reflection on Academic Seminar & Conferences and Career Crisis in their 30s juxtapose institutional fatigue with individual searching, while The Sweet Reflection: Sugar Making in India traces how something as simple as sugar encodes labour, technology, and memory. The guest column The Clock Catastrophe – Pavan Vyas tightens the focus on time itself as a colonizing force. April’s Reimagining Swaraj – Barun Mitra and Indian System of Management then ask whether freedom today must be measured not in GDP and KPIs, but in how societies govern themselves with restraint, relationship, and rootedness.
Mid-year, the themes of knowledge, community, and gender come to the fore. May’s Large Scale Legitimizing of Unorganized sector knowledge and Between a Sangha and Utopia wrestle with how to hold community spaces that are neither romantic communes nor bureaucratic shells, while Women Change Makers and My World Environment Day heroes quietly reframe who counts as a “leader.” June’s Seven Sutras of UnBranding distils principles for stepping out of the seduction of scale and spectacle, complemented by Reflection on reading Hind Swaraj and the experiential Reflections from the Learning Societies UnConference (LSUC), Coimbatore, which together suggest that “development” without self-critique is merely acceleration in the wrong direction.
By July and beyond, the writing becomes more overtly institutional and political. The changing face of Academic Conferences and Indian Management Knowledge – Introductory Web Lecture diagnose how even spaces of knowledge can be captured by performance, while September’s The hallow spectacle of rural development exposes how “rural progress” often masks planetary plunder.
October’s Talk in the One Health Conclave, Coimbatore carries that critique into the language of health systems, and November’s tribute Honoring an environmentalist elder – Saalumarudhe Thimmakka anchors hope in the life of a single, steadfast tree planter. December’s climate pieces – Environmental crimes go up by 78% in India, do we care, Arctic and Antarctic melted fastest in recorded history, and ESG Investments in Adani Group – remind that ethics cannot remain local when the ice caps themselves are writing their own statement of evidence.
Running parallel to these are sharp interventions on law and family. De-Criminalizing Environmental Violations in India warns that weakening environmental penalties risks normalizing what should be unthinkable, while Responsible Parenting reframes parenting as the first school of ethics, where children learn whether care is just spoken or also practiced. The scattered but insistent pieces on youth – from Career Crisis in their 30s to Entrepreneur Opportunity – Chief Guest Talk – suggest that generational anxiety may be less a private failing and more a rational response to an economy at odds with ecology.
The book reviews create another layer of dialogue, placing contemporary crises in conversation with diverse intellectual traditions. The Joy of Living Lightly – Fif Fernandes and Speaking with Nature – Ramachandra Guha invite a gentler, slower relationship with the non-human world, while The Great Nicobar Betrayal – Pankaj Sekhsaria and The Grammar of Greed – Aseem Shrivastava expose the violence hidden inside “development” narratives. Reviews of India: A Linguistic Civilization – G.N. Devy and Imperialism and Agrarian Transformation in South Asia expand the canvas to language and land as sites of resistance, while Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us – Manu Joseph and The Delhi Model – Jasmine Shah force engagement with the ethics of inequality and governance.
Seen together, this constellation of publications, long-form articles, blogs, and reviews is less a set of isolated texts and more an evolving conversation between inner voice and outer structure. It moves fluidly between the farmer’s field and the policy table, between a parent’s dilemma and a polar ice melt, between the unorganized worker’s knowledge and the global investor’s portfolio. At its heart lies a persistent suggestion: that the future will be decided not only by what institutions do, but by whether individuals and communities can “live lightly,” own responsibility for their local economies, and refuse to treat either people or places as expendable.
Publications
Natural Farming in Tamil Nadu - A Status Report (English, Tamil)
UnBranding - Local Market Syntax for a Climate Changed World
Potential Unlimited - Ethics from the Life of Ordinary People
Big Articles
Walking out of the corporate 27 yrs
Who is responsible for the local economy?
Ethical Challenges of Agri-Tech Entrepreneurs
Shopkeepers or Identity Keepers
Internship with Farmers - A first person account by Samanvaya Intern
De-Criminalizing Environmental Violations in India
January 2025
Organic Certification – can we trust it in India?
Re-learning to live away from camera
Social Entrepreneurship, Start-ups and Swami Vivekananda
Listening to the small voice within you
February 2025
Entrepreneur Opportunity - Chief Guest Talk
March 2025
Reflection on Academic Seminar & Conferences
The Sweet Reflection: Sugar Making in India
Guest Column: The Clock Catastrophe - Pavan Vyas
April 2025
Guest Column: Barun Mitra - Reimagining Swaraj
May 2025
Large Scale Legitimizing of Unorganized sector knowledge
My World Environment Day heroes
June 2025
Reflection on reading Hind Swaraj - Sudarshan Chariar
Reflections from the Learning Societies UnConference (LSUC), Coimbatore
July 2025
The changing face of Academic Conferences
Indian Management Knowledge - Introductory Web Lecture
The Hallow spectacle of rural development
October 2025
Talk in the One Health Conclave, Coimbatore
November 2025
Honoring an environmentalist elder- Salamaradhu Thimmakka
December 2025
Environmental crimes go up by 78% in India, do we care
Arctic and Antarctic melted fastest in recorded history
ESG Investments in Adani Group
Book Reviews
The Joy of Living Lightly - Fif Fernandes
The Great Nicobar Betrayal - Pankaj Sheksaria
Speaking with Nature - Ramachandra Guha
India A linguistic civilization - by G.N. Devy
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us - Manu Joseph
The Grammar of Greed - Aseem Shrivastava
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