Alastair Crooke update at Dialogue Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYv-ZMKkGCo

Indian nationhood, vernacular imagination

https://scroll.in/article/1084837/literature-icons-history-how-indian-nationhood-was-built-through-local-languages?fbclid=IwY2xjawL2NLVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv-9EJKzn78jEewIMizcDUVpS1kljeFk5q_DUuinhcnbqX-k60QUfbhzO5Om_aem_vEC8Mwvt7rY0y31WeEYINA

The money weapon

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-the-money-weapon.html

Jacques Baud on the Ukraine situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOKAEuIFag

Trump mystique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4IwLYSmrI

Plagiarism

once I knew an indian mathematicians who plagiarised. in two of his books he copied verbatim once from a published book and the second time from a lecture notes without proper acknowledgements andmisleading references in the notes at the end. He was in a position of power and when the plagiarism came to be known among the scientific circles in india, the re@ctions were muted. He in fact a promotion but seems to have lost his administrative power in the institute where he worked. But many scientists who usually find that somebody like Trump plagiarised did not find fault with him and celebrated his birthdays. Once apparently one of his earlier teachers asked him why he did it and his response was that so and so was impossible to improve and he did not want to waste his time. This was reported to me and I do not really know whether it was true. I recently saw an interview with him and nearly thirty years after the incident, he mentions the books and said that he was asked to publish one of them in some series but it did not materializ. There did not seem to be any sense of guilt or responsibility. May be he really thought that it was a waste of time to try to improve on excellent expositions.

K.R.Parthsarathy interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwY2xjawLycKRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrSc6LFVKVDA6b5sK9XicBYJoFUpqpugcZg4C8kwUvGNMR17NoIeq2AYmCo4_aem_z69IaIND3pe_fH3Kw29Xkw&v=C7T9REQAuvc&feature=youtu.be

Trump picks up where Biden let off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puftsUVUYLw

Gaza situation

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/british-premier-says-gaza-suffering-unspeakable-indefensible-as-uk-seeks-urgent-action-with-e3-partners/3641299 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-president-macron-says-france-192602531.html From Haaretz https://archive.is/20250724085016/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-24/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-disgrace-of-deliberate-starvation-israels-war-of-hunger-in-gaza/00000198-381d-d47b-adbe-fa3dfeb10000

Sleboda on the current battlefield situation around Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcijkvQ-6SU

China’s biopharmaceutical sector highlights innovation’s role in countering deglobalization

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202507/1339103.shtml

A bleak scenario

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/gaza-china-us-military-law-ccp-hudson-institute.html

Israel’s genocide is big business

via Naked Capitalism https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-07-21/israel-genocide-big-business/

Michael Hudson on today’s civilizational conflict

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/michael-hudson-todays-civilizational-conflict.html

Russian adcpvances in Ukraine and division of labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3S-C7hZn2Y

Dismembering Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XemctVJMcJU

Nanoclay:the liquid turning desert in to farmland

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-spray-that-turns-deserts-into-farmland.html

A bit about my research in mathematics

It seems natural in old age to reflect on one’s past and that has been the case with me recently, in particular with reference to mathematics. one used to study, pass examinations with the hope of getting a stable government job at some stage. That was the case with me and I was not particularly interested in any topic. Then suddenly at the age of 15 Professor V.Krishnamurthy in Loyola College, Madras started teaching a topics course once a week. he explained about rational numbers, real numbers, that there are many more real numbers than rational numbers using Cantor’s diagonal argument. I got hooked. It seemed to be subject one could understand which has ideas and not just calculations. From then on I wanted to study mathematics with the idea of ending up as a teacher somewhere and continue to learn and enjoy mathematics. But after a few years, just learning became more of the same and there were natural questions around what one was learning and some of them seemed worth pursuing. So learning slowly turned in to a mixture of learning and research. But I did not like teachers except one or two like Krishnamurthy and did not want to be guided in research. So I did not acquire expertise in any topic and what I leaned became a mixture actual knowledge together with some statements which I assumed without knowing proofs and kept thinking about them off and on trying to figure out how to prove such things. Meanwhile the subject kept changing and one had to learn new things alone though in an institutional setting. One such event was the arrival of William Thurston. One had to learn what he was doing or give up the subject. But I did not have the background to understand any of it. One way of entry seemed to be through old complex analysis and Mobius transformations leading to some hyperbolic geometry and limit sets and such. It is at this stage I got acquainted with Bernard Maskit. I was wondering about limit sets and he showed me the thesis of one of his students Perry Susskind. It was exactly what I was looking for and then I realised that they could be extended to all dimensions using Margolis Lemma. Perry kindly agreed to collaborate and it was exactly the kind of stuff I liked, learning combined with a bit of research. This knowledge of limit sets also led to some work with Peter Scott on the geometric finiteness of some Kleinian groups using famous work of Cannon and Thurston. This way, I slowly started understanding bits and pieces of Thurston’s work and at the same time writing papers and surviving in the profession. This acquaintance with Maskit, learning about Susdkind’s thesis etc seemed a crucial part of my continuing in the profession when survival seemed difficult after the arrival of Thurston. Another strand in my career was the theory of JSJ decompositions in which I entered accidentally. While passing through London in 1977, I found a copy of Hempel’s book on three manifolds. I found that there was no reference to me in the book though some work similar to mine made the references. I started looking at the problems at the end of the book and solved one of them on the train to Southampton. I was wondering whether it was publishable or not and later realised that it was a special case of a well known result of Johannson with a long proof and duly published it. I slowly acquired the reputation of having some expertise on JSJ without really reading any of the papers or knowing any thing. Then around 1996, Walter Neumann organised a conference and asked me to write a survey paper on JSJ for the conference. I foolishly agreed but found it impossible to read the relevant papers. After a month I told Walter that it is becoming more of research project and I would do it if he collaborated with me. Peter Scott said “An elementary proof of the existence of the JSJ decomposition was given by Neumann and Swarup in Their arguments greatly simplified the subject by concentrating only on embedded annuli and tori.” It immediately got in to text books. But since it is a joint paper and I had this unfortunate habit of not reading the parts written by collaborators, I am still struggling with the topic and again planning to write a proof of the deformation theorem for my own understanding.

Michael Hudson on the economics of the current conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avSepk1qxw

A,Astaire Crooke on Trump blunders

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/07/15/us-hubris-driven-blunders-transform-the-entire-complexion-of-wider-war/

Concentration camp plan for Gaza by Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/stop-israels-dystopian-new-improved-concentration-camp-plan-before-its-too-late.html see also the discussionafter 51 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TbO2gMKVs&t=2793s May be some severe financial crisis soon is the onlyxolution.

Focus on Turkiye- Azerbaijan activities against Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/will-russia-greatly-accelerate-its-ukraine-tempo-to-facilitate-responding-to-turkiye-azerbaijan-threat-to-iran.html

Voice of Protest: A Study of Dalit Song in Telugu

The following article contains several references https://untouchablespring.blogspot.com/2011/05/voice-of-protest-study-of-dalit-song-in.html

Things moving fast around Middle East

Douglas Macgregor yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL336a7RMeg

Now the war against Russia spreads to Azerbaijan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qpDjKuwsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTf24Z2vOQ more https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/chaos-in-the-caucasus-turkiye-and-azerbaijan-make-their-us-israel-backed-move-against-russia-and-iran.html

A depressing scenario about Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPKVghUp54 "...US course is set, the Palestinian people are going to end up being a nomadic people much like ironically the Jews themselves once were. Not only will they not have a state, they will not have a homeland."

Scott Ritter musings before July 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFPkwxPtULU

Brian Berletic on future conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsFqWbDRzY Scott Ritteron the future of Israel andIran conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1Y7qTmmpI