PPP in Andhra means Prostrate Pray Physicians

Recently there has been much debate about the PPP. If we ask google what is PPP, we will be informed: Purchasing Power Parity, Private Public Partnership and so on, anything but Pakistan People's Party which shows the state-of-the-art AI.

The first PPP means an exchange rate that equates the purchasing power of different currencies, showing how much of a good a currency can buy in different countries. Suppose the cost of two oranges is 100 rupees in India and 2 dollars in USA, the PPP of India is higher than that of the US even though the currency exchange gives about a dollar and a quarter for 100 rupees. Obviously not all oranges are the same and the price varies by location and time.

The second PPP means a project or service operated jointly by a government and a private company. By one reckoning, the Government of India has nearly 2000 PPPs worth 2,495,568.44 crore rupees. The process of picking the companies for partnership involves complex tenders and of course, a great deal crony capitalism.

Given that the hindu pantheon is like various bureaucracies of GoI, what is PPP like in Devaloka? The Asvins mentioned in vedas are the divine physicians whose ken extends over all aspects of biological forms, whereas Dhanvantari is the head of Ayurveda meant for the humans which makes him a PPP.

It is well known that before modern universities emerged, knowledge was transmitted in a gurukula. Thus, Ayurveda was passed on in a guruparampara starting with Dhanvantari who emerged from the milky ocean when devas and asuras churned it to obtain amrit or elixir of life. Bhagavata has all the esoteric details about how Lord Vishnu, transformed as a nymph called Mohini, hoodwinked the asuras to handover the amrit exclusively to devas that made them immortal, hence disease-free.

Who paid for gurukulas? While the knowledge taught in a gurukula is of divine origin, the cost of running a gurukula was borne by the rishis who grew food and necessities from their own cultivation at first and later received largess from local lords or kings. This is called an endowment. Many American universities have land grants, endowments, trusts, etc. to manage the day-to-day university expenses. There are issues on the definition of non-profit universities and their investment in stock markets around the globe, that is for another day.

Over the years, Ayurveda was replaced by Allopathy but the basic model of gurukula continued. That means the elected officials replaced the overlords and kings. The cost of training a medical student in a 4-year course today, for example, is nearly 2 crore rupees in Andhra which is ultimately paid for by the Andhra taxpayers.

When graduates choose to immigrate to other countries or move within Bharat to another state, want to serve only in urban areas and prefer corporate hospitals over government hospitals, the average taxpayer in Andhra who depends on government hospitals is left at a disadvantage. Basically, he is not getting the return on investment Andhra made with taxpayer money.

Having established the unequal distribution of medical care even if access to medical care through aadhar and such ID's is not considered, the issue is how to ensure that the taxpayer is justly served. It is in this context that the previous state government floated the idea of PPP. They wanted to keep 50% or so percent of the student intake for taxpayer subsidies and the rest to be distributed among those who can afford to pay. This seems like a win-win solution.

According to the critics of the existing system, the tenders floated by the state government are too restrictive and assume the capitalists will prefer to invest in medical education and care over other sectors of the economy out of good samaritanism. It is not clear how much of the investment will be borne by the state. If the state subsidizes 50%, even though it seems lower than before, still it is a burden for the taxpayer. How to alleviate the taxpayer burden?

Many of the critics look up to the American model of medical education where students need to take loans either with collateral by their parents or government guarantee, to pay for their education if they can't afford it. Since the infrastructure is built up with land grants and endowment, the cost of medical education is reasonable if not the optimum.

Another aspect of some student loans is, they are offered contingent on the service in rural areas after graduation for a certain number of years. This will mitigate the need for hiring immigrants by offering them visas on J-1, H-1, F-1, etc. for serving exclusively the rural population which is 18% of the total US population. The reality, however, is different. When there are 8 physicians for 10,000 residents in urban areas, there are only 5.1 in rural areas. In India they are 10 and 1 respectively with more than 60% of the population living in rural areas.

One can ask, why can't the for-profit medical insurance and pharmaceutical companies, who are the ultimate financial beneficiaries, pay for the medical education? While it is not entirely clear, there is the concern about unwanted nexxus or collusion spiking the cost of doctor's visits and prescription medicine even more than current astronomical numbers.

Then there is the access and affordability. There are tens of millions Americans who don't have access to medical care. That is, they don't have a physician to go to for routine check ups. Even with access, the so-called co-payment is unaffordable for them. Thus, there is inequity and condemnation of the poor to ill-health and its societal manifestation as violence when it concerns lack of mental care.

So the critics, by choosing the American model of rationing of medical care, will have to answer how they can augment or replace the present system given the deficiencies. If the collective will is to coerce the medical graduates to serve the rural population, then subsidizing medical education makes sense. On the other hand, when serving the rural areas becomes mandatory, or education is with strings attached, many may choose other career paths further skewing the physicians to patient ratio.

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When Lotus Genuflects

Hindu sages stood for unity since the time of Sage Kanad (600 BC) who proposed first that matter is made of atoms (kana). John Dalton in the 19th century refined it and called it atomic theory. The next breakthrough came in 1901 when Dr. Karl Landsteiner proposed the ABO blood group system and showed that all humans have blood in common.

The general consensus among astronomers is that our body cells have the same elements as stardust. That is, the beginningless belief by hindus that water, air, earth, fire and space or pancha bhootas make up all the matter in the universe is validated. In 1953, Drs.Watson and Crick discovered DNA putting all humans on an equal footing.

On the other hand, there are a million ways humans are shown to be unequal. The varna system of vedas, gotras to identify the sage from which one has descended, and the recent caste system are testimonials to human ingenuity in dividing and conquering.

In Valmiki Ramayana written eons ago, Sage Vasishtha taught Lord Rama that there is no cause-effect in the universe to make each of us as unique individuals. For the Sage everything is kakataaleeyam. That is, at the same time as a crow (kaka) lands on a coconut tree (taleeya), if a coconut falls to the ground, there is no definite relationship as cause-effect between them. The Sage said everything emanates from universal consciousness and merges in it. He gave examples of waves in an ocean and embers from fire.

The same concept has been adopted by the spiritualists like Adi Sankara who argued that atma or soul is qualitatively the same for all jivas or life forms. They argued that the apparent diversity we see in the world is because of primordial ignorance or maya. The climax is Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection where he proposed that homo sapiens evolved from apes. So there is no need to feel one is superior because of color, caste, education, etc.

Even though our sages and scientists, alike, have been proving and saying time and again that there are not really billions of us fundamentally different from each other, there are occasions when all are not equal. Nowhere it is more pronounced as in the vedic astrology that is based on the axiom: while stars provide matter for our bodies, celestials control our destiny. A prince born to a Queen at the same time and place as a child born to her servant can have different destinies because of the law of karma which is based on cause-effect that Sage Vasishtha rejected.

The modern consensus from budhists to scientists is that cause-effect is the reason for our differences. The ruling class funds and promotes them because it suits their agenda to divide and rule for self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment. The colonies were carved out of religious and linguistic identities giving birth to nation-states. The League of Nations and United Nations were conceived in an effort to promote equal but separate concepts. In other words, gentrification and segregation are legitimate tools at the disposal of nation-states to implement their agenda.

The Internet is the much awaited breakthrough but it suffered from the digital divide. The haves decide the rationing of free speech among individuals. Oligarchs create their own social platforms and promote their divisive agenda. The have-nots or sheep in parlance, meekly submit to their will.

AI is no different. Scientists have coined a phrase called "inductive bias" that basically means AI is as good as its creators. That is, the AI created in North America can use race to make decisions, whereas the AI developed in Bharat may use dharma in its reasoning. Since all AI is as good as the training data, there is no hope for humans expecting equal treatment from machines. The machines will continue to ration medical care to deserving people or make the rich richer.

All is not bleak. The practitioners of yoga (which means union in Sanskrit) have by far the fairest system. If one wants to live long, the yogis give pranayamas; to be free from common diseases, there are yoga asanas; for spiritual enlightenment, there is ashtanga yoga. And so on. Ideally one receives enlightenment with meditation and by minimizing karma or action. The law of karma still applies, but its adverse effects are mitigated with proper sankalpa or desire and reigning in the vasanas or latent tendencies.

As hindus, we should unite against race-based discrimination, while renouncing the caste system or better replacing it with varnas. The problem comes when hindus see the caucasians as their devatas or saviors. The hindus and minorities in Bharat are ecstatic when a hindu emmigrates. The professionals go to the west and the laborers chase the petrodollar. Every year hundreds of high networth hindus leave Bharat with lock, stock and barrel. They all blame the ruling class which could be a legitimate claim.

Ask the google search engine "unkept promises of bjp" and instantaneously comes a long list starting with high unemployment, black money, low farmers' income, inflation, fuel prices, infrastructure, etc. One could say the data has been fed by the opposition to discredit the ruling party . It is highly unlikely given that the Bharat's leader virtually conferred the padma award to the google's captain and prostrated before the captain's mother. The leader's genuflection is legendary in the west and USA. On the other hand, the ruling party also has the freedom to provide data to the same search engine that highlights their achievements.

One should give credit to the rulers of Bharat where it is due. Most people are supportive of Bharat military's defence and offense capabilities even though it means abandonment of non-alignment and alienation from the west. The bharatiya oligarchs are apparently inspired by the Russians even as capitalism of America is considered an epithet. No one is sure where Bharat stands on socialism and fascism. The prevalence of natives up in arms against the invading "aryans" testifies to certain resentment.

Bharat's wealth distribution in 2025 shows extreme inequality, with the top 10% holding nearly two-thirds of the nation's wealth and income, while the bottom half receives only around 15% of income, according to the World Inequality Report 2026.

Perhaps Bharat's highest achievement is the strength and resilience of the middle-class that constitutes nearly one third of the population or about 440 million people. Even if the trading nations penalize them with high taxes, there are no signs that their support for the ruling class will budge. It is not enough to claim unity in diversity, but to get rid of perceived inequalities based on the western and American models of governance.

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Seafaring not Seafearing that brought us closer as humanity

Indus Valley Civilization (2600-1900 BCE) was known for seafaring using primitive boats and oars. In this regard, Rig Veda has several verses describing ocean-crossing.

In 1.116 The Deeds of the Asvins Verse 3 says:

"Tugra had left Bhujyu in the cloud of water as a dead man leaves behind his wealth.You brought him back, Asvins, in ships that were alive, that swam through the realm of air far from the water."

The Ashvins are twin gods in Hindu mythology, often referred to as the horsemen. They are associated with medicine, health, healing, and the sciences.

Later hindu Kings developed trade relations by navigating the oceans on ships with Persia, Java, Sumatra, etc. where they exchanged spices with local produce. Therefore, it is established that our forefathers knew about ship design and how to take advantage of trade-winds for navigation.

However, the invention of submarines apparently didn't take place in Bharat. The credit goes to europeans. Why is it important? The ships and sail boats traveling on the surface of oceans are subjected to storms and unfavorable conditions. The navigation could fail, making the ships end up in unexpected places. The oars-men could succumb to sickness. And so on. The submarines, on the other hand, have none of these and can travel faster than ships, especially the nuclear ones. By using a hydrofoil design, similar to planes, the friction is greatly removed. They can also take advantage of warm currents inside oceans, such as the gulf stream, which are highlighted in the animation movie "Finding Nemo" (2003).

When it comes to space travel, the hottest ticket is, not a rocket to Mars, what is called a "warp drive" that can travel faster than light, overcoming the limitation set by physicists for the massive objects like spaceships. The way they do it is by creating higher pressure in the backend several times greater than the pressure in the front much like hydrofoil. In other words, the warp drive is like submarines if only in space. The idea of warp drives started with science-fiction. Now it is proved to be possible by a number of breakthroughs in theoretical and experimental physics. The physicists are now betting that one can travel in a warp bubble back and forth to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system 4.2 light years away, in a year's time.

But there is a catch. The physicists tell us that the warp bubble can only be sustained with negative energy and exotic matter that are yet to be invented. To understand negative energy, one can start with negative pressure which is seen in a building when an enclosed area has lower pressure than surroundings. In the case of a submarine, when in deep-dive, the pressure of water mass above the submarine will be many times greater than the atmospheric pressure inside. So the material of construction of the submarine should be able to withstand it.

As for the exotic mass, it often means "dark matter" that is thought to be pushing the galaxies apart at great speeds away from earth. Since it can't be seen with telescopes or measured with sensors, there is a great deal of speculation. It is possible to liken it to our negative thoughts and feelings about ourselves, near and dear ones, governments and the planet earth in general.

Thus, on this new year's day, let us resolve to give up negative thinking and pray for world peace. Just as navigating oceans, later skies in planes, brought us closer as humanity, despite Manu's prohibitions on crossing the seven seas, with space travel one day, we hope, we will be able to see the creator who holds the answer to all of our doubts.

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Swecha Bharat

For many hindus Panchatantra is no stranger. But how many know many of the surviving historical manuscripts of Panchatantra are found in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran; Oxford library, Indian Office Library, London (UK); Tibet and Japan, etc.? Its author Vishnu Sarma (200 BCE-300 CE) was blessed with most translations of any Bharatiya vignaan among the Indo-European and Indo-Persian language families.

As many know, "pancha" in Sanskrit means five and "tantra" is an "upaya" or a stratagem. The five being Mitra-bheda (The Loss of Friends), Mitra-lābha (The Acquisition of Friends), Kākolūkīyam (The Crows and the Owls), Labdhapraṇāśam (The Loss of Gains), Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ (The Rash Deeds).

Preceding Panchatantra was Chanakya's (350 BCE) 5 upayas: sama (persuasion), dana (offering), danda (punishment), bheda (isolation) in the art of governance that were largely superseded by the later Panchatantra because of the harshness involved in them. But you still find them among the fraternity of nations. For instance Bharat is in the last two legs vis-a-vis neighbors.

Also, there is a difference between Vishnu Sarma's mitra-bheda that means doing the opposite of Dale Carnegie's advice in his book "How to Win Friends And Influence People", and Chanakya's bheda which means isolation such as the "sanctions regime".

After independence, Bharat used Panchsheel: respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence that were called "non-alignment", later "non-aligned movement" by including more nations. In reality, Bharat favored the former USSR over the USA, the two nations engaged in cold-war.

The "Global South", "BRICS", etc. are later refinements to primarily counter the US Dollar's supremacy. So when the talk of Tariffs was going on, Bharat fell back to Mitra-Labha and the EAM went around scouting for new markets and trading partners. The foreign jaunts of nouveau riche on Bharat's Air Force 1 are reminiscent of American tycoon Carnegie's diplomacy on his yacht to engage primarily China and Bharat. While China acceded to open up trade relations and prospered, Bharat lagged behind.

If there is a stark difference between these two neighbors, it is the lingua franca induced lack of orderliness. Bharat, while proud of its English, had subscribed to sloganeering under the guise of 5-year plans such as "Garibi Hathao" (remove poverty), "Beti Bachao" (save the girl child), etc. neglecting infrastructure and overall hygiene. While the former made leaps and bounds in the recent past despite fiascos like Indigo grounding its planes, the latter never sunk deep into the citizens as they were offered more slogans like "Swacha Bharat", "Vikshit Bharat", "Atma Nirbhar Bharat", etc. instead of investment in practical tools to raise the standards of living.

For instance, whenever the world leaders visited the capital, the likes of Madanpur Khadar and Kathputli Colony, that are collectively called slums, were kept out of sight with make-shift pardahs along the surface routes. At the same time humanitarians like Mother Teresa and Mira Nair were heckled for not providing bathroom tissue to the slum dwellers instead of seeking fame and prizes.

So how to fix? While trickle-down economics by handing over public institutions to the oligarchs might work in the short-term, like Russia the GoI will bog down in unending border skirmishes throwing more "Agni Veers" in harm's way, for which the largely unemployed youth, who are enamored with government jobs that are synonymous with corruption, are to be blamed . The self-employed shouldn't be subsisting on "Pakora Stalls" without knowing nutritional value and basic hygiene, both of which can be fixed, like in China or Singapore, with incentives and repercussions rather than saddling with a GST. In other words, use Chanakya's precepts for internal affairs rather than making speeches in the General Assembly or informal press conferences by the select coterie to show "Swecha Bharat" or an utopian land of freebies from the leaders.

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Future generations will be "autistic savants" with AI

Leaving the question whether math is innate or acquired, by nature or by nurture, there is ample evidence that infants and primitive tribes can count either mentally or using fingers. As per the "Dasama Nyaya" a person counting a group leaves himself out which means counting manually is prone to errors. Between 1911-18 Swami Bharati Krishna Tritha published what is called now "Vedic Mathematics" taught in school all over:

"After a deep study of the Vedas, he extracted 16 Sutras and 13 sub-sutras that form the backbone of Vedic mathematics. These formulas aren't limited to just addition or multiplication they extend to algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and more."

Besides Ramanujam (1887-1920), who was not a self-admitted vedic scholar, the aforementioned swami was the most celebrated hindu mathematician even though their mathematical intuition is worlds apart. For instance, Ramanujam thought about various kinds of infinity viz. countable, uncountable, ordinal, cardinal, etc. along with intuition of his co-evals in the west that there are more real numbers packed in between zero and one than there are numbers in the entire range of naturals.

My favorite puzzle is when you have a guest appearing at a hotel with infinite rooms that are all occupied, how would you check-him in? One solution is to ask the existing guests to shift by one room and the first vacant room is to be assigned to the new guest.

While it could be that vedic mathematicians didn't ponder over infinity besides the saanti mantra, called metaphysical infinity, which in essence means whether you add or subtract infinity from or to infinity the result is infinity, they deserve credit for zero, a mysterious number connecting the negative and positive numbers on the number axis. Its use in modern binary computers is well known.

For ancient hindus, math is not just an instrument to study reality, like posited by the scientists studying phenomenal laws, but a way to connect with the divine. Nowhere it is more apparent than in jyotish. Starting with sages Parasara and Jaimini (5000 BCE), Arya Bhata (476–550 CE) who was a mathematician-astronomer and author of Āryabhaṭīya and the Arya-siddhanta, Varahamihira (505- 587 CE) who gave us a compendium of Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian astronomy called Pancha-siddhantika (“Five Treatises”), are some of the great jyotishi Bharat ever produced.

In the realm of counting or arithmetic, Bhaskaracharya who gave us Leelavati Ganita in 12th century AD, for sizing up weight, volume, currency, etc. that are commonly called "weights and measures" in modern curricula, Dharma Raja who was an expert in "yaksha hridaya ganita" whereby one could tell the number of leaves on a fully grown tree without counting or the number of horses on a battle-field by a mere glance, besides Ramanujam who said the sum of infinite series of nature numbers adds up to a negative fraction which is more like the destiny of human race, are well known.

With the advent of calculators and computers, though counting fast or efficiently using brain power have taken a back-seat, the challenges posed by infinity are ever present. For example, what is the largest number to represent a nation's GDP or trade deficit that are currently in the range of trillions? What is the largest prime number that can be used to encrypt this message? Is space infinite? And so on.

In Leelopakhyana of Ramayana, Sage Vasishta speculates that within each atom there is an entire universe composed of atoms that have their own universe endlessly. It could be that our universe is the last in that chain. As scientists try to smash atoms in particle accelerators, we miss the big picture the Sage had painted. For example, our puranas say Lord Vishnu "descended" to earth from Vaikuntha. None is any wiser.

Finally there are autistic savants like in the movie Rain Man who could be specialists in counting or arithmetic though cognitively limited when compared to normal people, as there are people who can remember dates while not knowing their street address. Modern AI is made possible by such autistic theory where the "neural networks" specialize in pattern recognition to the exclusion of commonsense. Unchecked, future generations will turn out to be autistic savants much like Sakuntala Devi and Bharatiya chess wizards like Anand had demonstrated.

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Moral Depravity is the cause of Desecration of Statue

Almost two centuries ago, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, spoke against idol worship and temples. Many advaitis in south knew but didn't join Arya Samaj that was credited for the accession of Hyderabad Nijam after the Rajakar's movement in 1948. Why?

Adi Sankara in 8th century AD defeated Buddhists, Jains, etc. who introduced idol worship into Bharat and sent them packing to the North. Prior to Buddhism and Jainism, it is believed that hindus predominantly conducted yagnas or fire worship much like Zoroastrians in particular and Persians in general. The vedic gods like Indra, Varuna, et al. were not worshiped using idols but were offered havis from yagnas. Many religious places of worship left behind by the Budhists and Jains became the temples of worship for hindus.

Invaders came in waves after 10th century AD and were involved in the defacement of hindu idols and places of worship. Whether they were assisted by the local kings or temple desecration happened even before because of in-fighting among the hindu kings as claimed by Prof Richard Eaton of University of Arizona , is debatable but the restoration of Ramajanmabhoomi of Ayodhya to hindus (2019) was done by the whim of judges probably awoken by the deity in their dreams just as Lord Rama was known to have repaid Bhakta Ramdas' unpaid dues during the reign of Tana Shah (17th century AD).

Over the centuries as the hindu diaspora spread across the globe, they built temples for idol worship and there were several instances of desecration that are in parlance called vandalism by miscreants but never by state actors until now. Thailand's military has been accused of destroying a tall Lord Vishnu's statue near the border with Cambodia.

It is interesting to note that both countries compete for tourism by heavily depending on tourists from Malaysia, China, Russia and South Korea along with Bharat. So far this year at least 25 million tourists came from these countries and nearly 43 billion US Dollars were earned by tourism. In 2024, 2.13 million Bharatiyas visited Thailand and in Thai currency spent nearly 84 billion or about 3 billion US Dollars.

As one can see Bharatiyas contribute about 15% to Thailand's tourism which is not a big deal as many are drawn to sex-tourism Bangkok is famous for regardless of events related to the latest border skirmish. The politics of Thailand are driven more by what happens in Bangkok than to an idol at the border.

However, from Cambodia's, which is called Kambhoji by Akhand Bharat vadis, perspective things are totally the opposite. About 75000 Bharatiyas visited Angkor heritage and Hindu Budhist temples in 2024. And more are expected this year and in the coming years.

Given these facts, it is the moral depravity of Bharatiyas who would go to Bangkok for anything but idol worship that has caused the Lord Vishnu's statue to drop from a high pedestal. One can give more facts about Bharat's transition from Buddhism to Hinduism and the tragic circumstances Bharatiyas experienced under foreign rule post Sankara era. But it won't measure up against the decrepit state of affairs vis-a-vis Thailand's Bangkok.

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Purushottama v. Uttama Purusha

Purushottama v. Uttama Purusha

A casual glance at the scripture reveals that in Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna uses the latter and in Vishnu Sahasra Namas the former is used. In simple words: "Purushottama signifies an exalted supreme being, embodying virtues and divine essence, often associated with Lord Vishnu." For the latter, an entire Chapter 15 called "Purushottam Yoga" was devoted in Gita.

The question: is there a difference? Gita answers affirmatively in terms of kshara purusha and akshara purusha where the latter means that which is imperishable, indestructible, fixed, immutable. What about Kshara Purusha?

This is where the masculinity concept is brought in. Starting with Greek gods like Hercules, Atlas, et al. the west had venerated masculinity in the fine arts and warfare. In the American context a phrase called "Hegemonic Masculinity" was constructed as: "men that are aiming to join military service to position themselves on the top of the hegemonic construct of masculinity". In the film, Pan’s Labyrinth, the idea of "fascist masculine" was used. As for the rest psychoanalytic theory, cognitive-development theory and learning theory definitions of masculinity apply which are:

Sex is biologically defined and gender is a social construct as male or female. Masculinity is a societal construct that is commonly associated with social problems like racism, depression, losing family and cultural value because in pursuit of true masculinity just to prove critics wrong, some men indulge in social vices like murder, theft and rape.

So anyway we cut it, masculinity is pejorative. In other words, as hindus we don't want to raise our children to live up to the masculine role models. That means, flexing muscles, subjugating minorities, exploiting females for progeny, etc. are not the qualities sought by us.

In the 20th century after hindus were finally liberated from the clutches of foreigners, a new found freedom led to the current "Kshara Purusha Crisis" for men that manifest as youth sporting beards (epitomized in the pan-India film Pushpa), women getting molested in public, sex tourism, pan-world films where heroes inspired by Super Man and James Bond project virility, machismo and chauvinism.

These kshara purushas have high fecundity which made sense when the economy was mostly agrarian and the infant mortality was high as more hands were necessary to tend the agricultural land even though it meant more mouths to be fed.

The kshara pusushas are also afraid that other religious groups will over-take them in terms of head-count and gain advantage in elections and convert Bharat to a theocratic state. While this seems like a legitimate grievance, the diaspora ascending to political heights in USA, UK, etc. is considered the same as "cognitively superior" merit-based immigration that opened the floodgates to immigrants in the west in general and USA in particular since 1965.

Regardless, the rest of the world sees Kshara Purushas using racist lens dividing them into androgynous and androgamus. The former is what we call "arathnaareeswara", the latter being my coinage that means subordination to the American hegemony.

In the west bollywood icons who are not Kshara Purushas were awarded honorary doctorates perhaps to create a competitive spirit among the religious minorities in Bharat that otherwise look up to "toxic masculinity" abroad. Many Kshara Purushas in the USA who spread hinduism through speeches, music, pravachanas, etc. project the Bharatiya soft power.

As Kshara Purushas come in more contact with other nationalities, preferring other women, we see a general feeling among their women as abandonment, rejection, and shame. So the Bharatiya women do the same and prefer macho men with shiny muscles or more wealth in other cultures. And this competition for appropriate mate goes on.

Lord Krishna is an Uttama Purusha because despite being in the midst of gopikas during raasa lilas, he was not swayed by any of them. The "Maryada Purusha" Lord Rama is known to all. At the same time, the follies of King Harischandra and King Dushyanta indicate the flip side of our culture.

The Adi Sankara's Bhaja Govindam advises the youth as:

nārī stanabhara nābhīdeśaṃ dṛṣṭvā mā gā mohāveśam | etanmāṃsa vasādi vikāraṃ manasi vicintayā vāraṃ vāram

Do not get drowned in delusion, infatuated with passion and lusty desires, by seeing a woman’s raised breasts and navel. These are nothing but a modification of flesh and fat, and the like. Do not fail to remember this again and again in your mind.

mā kuru dhanajana yauvana garvaṃ harati nimeṣāt-kālaḥ sarvam | māyāmayamidam-akhilaṃ hitvā brahmapadaṃ tvaṃ praviśa viditvā

Do not take pride in wealth, friends and youth. Each one of these is destroyed within an instant by Time. Free yourself from the illusion of the world of māyā and attain the realm of brahman, timeless truth.

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