J. C. Kumarappa - An Ethical Economist
Demonstrating social value is the real impact for any government that claims expenditure on 'national interest', claimed J C Kumarappa in his thesis on Public Finance while in Columbian University in the 1920s. Moving forward he claimed that the touchstone of prosperity of the general mass of public rather than profitability or efficiency of public administration.
TAMIL THINAI AS INDIGENOUS BIOREGIONAL FRAMEWORK
“Bioregion has no Scientific validity!” used to be a regular line of argument by the late Scientist Eric Ramanujam. Eric like most scientists refused to acknowledge or accept any ‘’non-scientific’’ definition of land or region. More than Eric it was a question regarding the relationship between a Bioregion and Watersheds by a visiting Australian hydrologist that made me think of bioregion as a framework that can be shaped by the Thinai concept of the Tamil land mass definition.
Future Knowledge - musing on Vijayadasami
I was yet again asked by a caring parent to advise their child on choosing the higher education that is aligned with a rightful career. While I do talk to the youth time and again like this, this made me reflect on what I really would like to suggest. As this is the day of pursuit of knowledge traditionally, I decided to put down my thoughts as an article. -----------------
Challenges of creating an Indigenous Entrepreneurs Forum
It was in 2019 when I was invited to give a talk in the NEXUS Latin American Global Conference in Quito, Equador that I first started to think and articulate the need for a global platform for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. Social Entrepreneurs have their task cut-out with several challenges such as the prevailing political economy, deep seated cultural and societal misgivings, modern market organization and lack of adequately oriented manpower that can align its aspirations to the sector and ones' own personal challenges.
Academic Elites and their Climate Indifference…
Academic Elites and their Climate Indifference…
What Sustains the Ordinary People of India?
What Sustains the Ordinary People of India? What would Dharampal say? “I don’t understand what you mean by Sustainability. To me a hundred families agreeing to live together in a village, with an understanding of the divine nature of their interdependency and that of the dependency on others is a sustainable society” – a village elder in Virudhunagar
Revisiting Dharampal
This article was published in the Centenary Publication of collected articles on Dharampal and his works by PPST and Other India Books, Goa called Re-Imagining Swaraj through Indian Tradition.
Naming the elephant in the room
This article was written for Teacher Plus magazine December 2022 special issue on Climate Change. The magazine maybe accessed here.
Future Institutions That Can Serve Human Purpose
Rev. Sara Joleno Wolcott and Ramasubramanian have been working together since 2014 when they first met in Chennai during the former's work and travels in India. Rev. Sara started the Sequoia Samanvaya in the US in 2018 and since then they have jointly toured and lectures and facilitated change processes together in Germany, USA, Canada and Ecuador. In January 2021, Sequoia Samanvaya brought out its first online journal the Grove and as part of it, the following conversational essay was jointly published by both of them.