D.R. Nagaraj's Views on the Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate, India's Response to China's Supply Chain Warfare, and a Call for Negative Results of Supply Chain Weaponisation
Excellent post by RSJ on the Dalit upliftment approaches of Gandhi and Ambedkar. As Nagaraj said, sometimes even seemingly contradictory approaches may seep into each other over time, and people change. What is that saying:
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"
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Pranay's mentioned "Knowledge-rich chokepoints" as a hard to substitute variety. Very true. Unlike "geographical" choke points (like Hormuz or Suez or Malacca), the knowledge-rich ones can be built by design or intent.
Re Iran: your read on the long tail tracks with something I explored in my Iran essay a few days ago — the cascades don't reverse even if the shooting stops. Your point about Iran internalising the Hormuz playbook is exactly right: they've discovered a weapon that costs them almost nothing to deploy and imposes asymmetric costs on everyone else. That's no longer a tactic, it's a template. Your line about protectionist trade tendencies accelerating is where my supply chain instincts twitch most — thirty-five years in that world tells me the rerouting that's happening won't snap back. It will calcifiy.
Different movies and a musical, same instinct as yours when you crafted the endgame scenarions 2 weeks ago — cinema makes geopolitics legible in ways that analysis alone can't :)
We are richer by the debate between what were our two foremost thinkers and reformers of the 20th Century. Apart from having influenced policy through constitutional measures they continue to inform the debate on how to bring about social change.
Let us not forget there was no acrimony even when there was disagreement. In the present times this is an attribute which seems to have gone completely missing in our leaders.
Excellent post by RSJ on the Dalit upliftment approaches of Gandhi and Ambedkar. As Nagaraj said, sometimes even seemingly contradictory approaches may seep into each other over time, and people change. What is that saying:
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"
~~
Pranay's mentioned "Knowledge-rich chokepoints" as a hard to substitute variety. Very true. Unlike "geographical" choke points (like Hormuz or Suez or Malacca), the knowledge-rich ones can be built by design or intent.
Re Iran: your read on the long tail tracks with something I explored in my Iran essay a few days ago — the cascades don't reverse even if the shooting stops. Your point about Iran internalising the Hormuz playbook is exactly right: they've discovered a weapon that costs them almost nothing to deploy and imposes asymmetric costs on everyone else. That's no longer a tactic, it's a template. Your line about protectionist trade tendencies accelerating is where my supply chain instincts twitch most — thirty-five years in that world tells me the rerouting that's happening won't snap back. It will calcifiy.
https://rajeshachanta.substack.com/p/marty-supreme-in-persia
Different movies and a musical, same instinct as yours when you crafted the endgame scenarions 2 weeks ago — cinema makes geopolitics legible in ways that analysis alone can't :)
The link to your post was excellent. Thanks!
We are richer by the debate between what were our two foremost thinkers and reformers of the 20th Century. Apart from having influenced policy through constitutional measures they continue to inform the debate on how to bring about social change.
Let us not forget there was no acrimony even when there was disagreement. In the present times this is an attribute which seems to have gone completely missing in our leaders.