When China makes all the stuff and the US buys a lot more of the stuff than it makes, that has a deep implication for the nature of jobs in the US.

Since Americans don't make the stuff they buy (and they buy a lot more than they sell to the world), it follows that the actual…

From Daily Thanthi Tamil newspaper last week: 'Son [age 40] kills mother [age 66] because she refused to give him money to drink'.

Alcohol is destroying our society, particularly our poorest and most vulnerable. The number of alcohol widows in our villages is shocking.…

This is an important point: India does not and should not aspire to adhere to 'western values' assuming that there is a standard definition of that term that can capture all the complexity of coastal US, southern US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Italy, not to mention the…

We accept payment in local currencies, which help our customers in Africa (as well as in Latin America).

Our business is growing strongly in these regions and I want to thank our customers 🙏

When I Iived in California East Bay, I would get depressed when I had to go to San Francisco for business meetings. I have gone to Dharavi in Mumbai in support of social work being done there and it is a far more hopeful place than San Francisco.

Politicians who run San…

I am excited that my brand new electric auto Montra from the Murugappa Group is here 😁

Fast pick up and nice suspension. I am loving it!

'Feeding 1.4 billion and counting is not possible without industrial agri'

This is conventional wisdom, yet it can be and should be challenged. As the book 'How Asia Works' demonstrates, yield per sqft of land is *not* very high in industrialized agriculture and gardening has…

notional_reality Farming is the hardest work I have known and the most difficult as a 'business'. If you want good healthy food, we have to revere the farmer. Similar with teachers of young children - very tough work and we must revere the people who do it.

Here is Thirukkural from 2000+ years…

Arsenic in our rice, pesticides in our spices ... the damage of industrialized agriculture accumulates.

If we don't respect the farmer, if we don't take care of the soil and all its microorganisms, if we don't take care of ponds or lakes and instead keep drilling deeper and…

It is not just that the 'Global Disinformation Index' turns out to be a global-left censor board. Most of the global indexes that purport to rank countries on a variety of criteria have an explicit or nearly-explicit left agenda. We must be careful in using these rankings.

Our Honorable Prime Minister Modi-ji, came to Ambasamudram which is close to my village. Even in the middle of his hectic campaign schedule, he gave me time to meet him and brief him on our rural development through R&D model and on creating high tech capability and jobs in…

Countries running massive deficits and surpluses against other countries is directly the result of infinitely-expanding-debt-as-money.

Debt based consumption
destroys economic resilience, as consumption divorced from production always does. When practised over decades, it…

Each district in India is about 1.5 to 2 million people. I like to think of it as about 20,000 children born per year per district. That is sufficient demographic base to produce good talent - in each district.

The critical questions facing us are 'how do we use this talent to…