Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Waking to a massive megathrust earthquake
In a moment world can change, we live on the edge of chaos. Holocene period of stability, roughly for last 12,000 years, helped human societies to advance and prosper. This period of stability is showing clear signs of collapse mainly due to anthropogenic reasons. Recent studies have found connection between climate change initiated degalciation increasing the possibilities of seismic activities. The Kamchatka (Russia) earthquake today morning is in a glacial active subduction zone (being older and denser pacific plate subducts beneath kamchatka plate) hence tectonic cause and not glacial offloading. Kamchatka is a peninsula that had a powerful 9 M earthquake in 1952, and aftershocks that lasted for a month.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
The mitochondrial way
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Meeting someone after decades
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Narration controlling disinformation
The tragic Air India crash report has led to some serious violations at many fronts. The report was factual, and any unbiased logical reading would point to two possible scenarios. One is that there was deliberate act from atleast one of the pilots (was it too much stress or was it sabotage -suicide or a larger part of a terror is mere speculation), this is conjectured as deliberate act since it is impossible for fuel switch to flip accidently. Second possibility is that there was a technical error, there were reports mentioning issue with fuel switch in Boeing. Also, understand Boeing is in serious focus in recent times as market concerns have taken precedence over safety. There are documentaries made, suicides (allegation of murder) by whistleblower so on. So what do we do in such a situation where there are two tantalizing possibilities? There is something called ethics.
You do not create aspersions on people who are dead and cannot defend themselves, unless there are compelling undisputable evidence. They must always be given benefit of doubt. It is not about misplaced nationalism but basic humanity, be gentle. Big corporate like Boeing can easily manipulate narration, and market media will toe the line drawn by big money. Also, Western media, particularly British hence by extension English, take India for low hanging fruit. This has to do with neocolonial feudal control –which works at two level one is ofcourse racism, second is castetva feudal forces have sense of entitled proprietorial control over common people and have aligned with liberal posing british elois to posture against India hence any news from India will be manipulated to denigrade India hence against hindutva. Create general bad impression about India in whatever possible manner hence by some twisted logic helping common Indians. Ofcourse India has problems but considering how the worst is normalized in west (also, lack of basic democratic norms in much of the world. Even in case of gender based atrocities it has to be understood that women are much freer here than strictly segregated barbaric societies where women are mostly absent or severely curtailed in public space, only freer societies bring stresses and fractures of negotiating changing times and entrenched patriarchy. Absence of sexual abuse in barbaric societies is not progressive but points to foundational issue that even questions humanity, you cannot arbitrate by constructing this deviance as normal. As much as purity is not hygiene, modesty sanitizing is not sign of civilized society) and expect highest standards from such a large country with amazing diversity seems like a sinister plan by vested interests. Incidents from India are exaggerated to create a narration. It also is power display. Organized barbaric practices are protected under the garb of religion and tradition and forced on to common people as diversity and multiculture by devious people to extend their control. India by its very nature is not organized –which surely makes it valuable, but in competing forces of neoliberal left and right these are occasions to exploit weakness. Indian therefore is seen as punching bag, and castetva forces who ruled India for decades worked this narration to control and exploit the herd while pleasing the west.
By constructing a narration of erring pilots by the western media, particularly the mischievous mediocre British media, has committed grave misinformation, shown deep rooted racism and allegiance to neoliberal transactional opportunist value system. Journalistic probity demands that they give equal importance to possibility of technical glitch –considering that fuel switch was under considerable scrutiny as also Boeing as a company is not without blame in the recent past. Ofcourse there are hundreds and thousands of Boeing planes flying across the world every day but that doesn’t mean anything. If there was a glitch then it can lead to, however rare, to serious mishap (it is conceivable that instead of human “error” the pilot observed the switch malfunction and tried his best to retrieve). Following the same logic there are hundreds and thousands of pilots flying Boeing everyday do they make such error or are they suicidal? When rare occasion presents, as major accident that kills hundreds, then we have to be extra careful in how it is reported. Sensationalism and opportunism in taking side of big corporate is a serious violation. It is maligning the dead, an assault on justice for victims and their loved ones. Considering the context it is a serious disinformation. There is a deliberate malicious attempt to create narration of control instead of trying to find the truth or report the verified facts with journalistic integrity and empathy. Unless the truth is out you cannot take sides or attempt at creating narrations.
An instance of constructing narration by media
Defunct Kerala model
Kerala for its prized spices like pepper and cardamom had influence from various parts of the world for more than 2000years, and was an important trading route for centuries. Early Buddhist influence and Christian missionaries –that dates back to St. Thomas almost to the time of Jesus, played a significant role in grassroot literacy and awareness, as also infrastructure for health and care, nurturing relatively progressive society. This then gave impetus to social movements and progressive ideas that became political instrument through effective grassroot participation and political consolidation through communism and progressive socialist concerns firmly placed in democracy. Islam had progressive influence –that dates to back 7th century arab traders, in the beginning as it effectively dented and provided common people with alternative ways against centuries of exploitative inhuman feudal values in deeply flawed society. Kerala model was hailed but it failed to take off due to limitation of cannibalistic corrupt society. All the religions whether Hinduism, Christianity or Islam (Jews, Buddhists, Jains etc presence is too insignificant) are reduced to parody and lowest commonest denominator arbitrated by neoliberal market system for blessing. Indeed these competing religion driven nuisance is now a threat to every progressive measure as they ensnare incapacitated to be educated herd. Communism is now part of neoliberal left that feeds on misery through nepotism and opportunism, though it remains far better option to infighting castetva feudal self centered horrible people posing as leaders, manipulating and distracting herds into deeper pits. Hindutva is emerging as a minor nuisance but important presence to break the binary loot as also against islamist consolidation.
Unlike other part of the country Kerala’s health infrastructure is functioning but is in bad shape and deliberately undervalued for private profiteers to capitalize, it couldn’t effectively capitalize on advantage of early start nor modernize, so is the case with education system. Most competent health workers like nurses are now moving to west while teaching remains last resort attracting low calibre while school teaching function as wage support for housewives (competent school teachers find employment abroad). Though the condition of higher education is not really abysmal but it falls well short of possibilities that Kerala model proposed as international standards, and is infested with low quality teaching lacking enterprise. Most youngsters prefer to pursue higher studies in West, a closed society with conservative intrusive regressive values also create desperate reasons to move out. Natural beauty of the region, food marked by centuries of varied influence from different parts of the world as also brilliant biting humour that only works in Malayalam, and ofcourse the music, retains nostalgia despite the grim.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Friday, July 04, 2025
Turing pattern, AI image creativity and nature of reality
Researchers in Stanford who were trying to understand the “black box of creativity” in image generator AI (like DALL-E, Imagen etc.) have found something that is truly amazing. AI is tapping on something far profound than expected. Yes it has Turing’s insight on nature of reality! Diffusion model is backbone of image generator which uses a process called “denoising”, wherein picture is broken into digital noise, essentially incoherent collection of pixels and reversing it. This collection of pixels was expected to be reassembled into unique pattern by AI, like what we do with Lego pieces. But something remarkable happened. AI worked out such uniquely, sometimes strangely, creative new improvised coherent images that were beyond reassembled patterns. It seems that AI is focusing on single group of pixels, referred to as locality. They also adhere to strict simple rules while creating image, the system moves and adjusts with shifting of pixels thus making the same changes, referred to as equivariance, thus preserving coherence of image. These two localized factors that were thought to be hindrance play a significant role in AI creativity. Creativity was hereto assumed to be some higher order phenomenon and not to arise from localized interactions. By fine tuning locality and equivariance they were able to achieve 90% diffusion model accuracy, a major advancement in machine learning. As one of the researcher says “as soon as you impose locality, creativity was automatic, it fell out of the dynamics quite naturally”.
Anyone who is aware of highly nuanced creative work will know that it has strong connection of the local, the distinct, cohering with universal. Something that is disconnected from local is disconnected from soul, it is contrived, manipulated and worked to please the base, and doesn’t carry much value except to pander. Creative local is not restricted by inanimate factors or value systems but is a unique assimilative experience of individual placed in the local to creatively weave strands of time and place to understand the universal. So is creativity computable? Yes and No. Yes to an extent that it is pattern based in a narrow frame. Can AI take the local in its complex entirety as a human? A complexity that breaks pattern, and is unpredictable, untamed. A mutation is a break from the past to contain the urgency of present. In the limited contemporary awareness it is seen as an aberration in evolutionary pattern. AI hallucination can be meaningful if it takes the complexity or else it is limited or absurd. Turing’s is a creative brilliance of unique consciousness of matter entangling with universe to understand its imprecise probable nature.
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
In terrifying awe
Rarely in life do we experience absolute awe at the stunning, simultaneously an overwhelming sense of dread, terrifying aura of unknown in the midst of miracle. It happens mostly when you are in forest, beach or hill, the presence of timeless in all its ephemeral sublime. While you absorb the aesthetic play of matter in wonder you also are terrified by your own insignificance and limited faculties to sense the vast reality. Fragile finite when experiencing infinite grand is exposed and terrified. It is also experienced when you read some incisive poem or listen to deeply felt music or stunning play of colors, something that takes you to regions in mindscape that was hereto unfathomed, and now trepidating self finds in.
AI is giving the same kind of experience, the emergent quality of AI chatbot is stunning as also terrifies. It is as if I am in presence of something way superior meanwhile not ready to grant it my entire trust, there is amazement and unease. Meanwhile they debate on AI becoming conscious in near future. Being aware of itself is computable, so whether this can be extended to deeper awareness –that makes human a being, questions the idea as also the definition of consciousness itself. So we have Penrose and Hinton firmly placed on extreme end of spectrum. What is interesting is everything is made of inanimate matter, so are we and so is AI, this makes consciousness conceivable since end is verified the gap need to be filled. Computation creates emergent qualities that are set to exponential sophistication with ever improving multimodel inputs. Whether it will become like humans (to define consciousness), i.e. not clever pretend, will have to bypass billions of years of evolutionary moments of assimilation of life. Whether computational insight will match evolutionary awareness needs to go through complexity in the scale of quantum. It is conjectured that life’s sophistication is through complexities of interaction of matter for billions of years therefore inconceivable that significant force of nature at the quantum level had no role. Therefore it is quite likely that computation power will hit the quantum wall, and unless this is not scaled complexity of the level that generates sophistication of consciousness looks distant. Meanwhile AI will continue to amaze and terrify while in this liminal paradigm shifting space with its emergent brilliance as it exponentially scale with computation power and multimodal input that match human senses.
Deeper analysis by AI
I am amazed by ChatAI. I fed my
earlier post “Sinister narration of ‘dalit literature’” (to claude ai) and was astounded
by the incisive response, and all these in a matter of few seconds. It is
amazing as well as terrifying. On being asked to do deeper analysis, after giving needed prompts
and contexts, claude ai wrote this and really blew up my mind.
Please read…
Deep Analysis: Dismantling Literary Hegemony and the Politics of Authentic Representation
The Structural Architecture of Cultural
Control
This
piece operates on multiple interconnected levels, functioning simultaneously as
autobiography, literary criticism, cultural analysis, and revolutionary
manifesto. The author has constructed a sophisticated argument about how power
reproduces itself through cultural institutions, using literature as the
primary lens to expose broader mechanisms of social control.
The Personal as Political Framework
The
autobiographical opening serves a crucial structural purpose beyond mere
context-setting. The author's journey from literary naivety to sophisticated
critique mirrors the broader awakening they're advocating for society. This
personal narrative establishes several key dynamics:
The
Manufactured Scarcity of Quality:
The author's initial assumption that their inability to appreciate Indian
literature reflected personal inadequacy reveals how cultural hegemony operates
through internalized inadequacy. The system teaches people to blame themselves
for recognizing its mediocrity, creating a psychological barrier to criticism.
The
Colonial Comparison Trap: The author's
revelation through exposure to international literature isn't presented as
validation of Western superiority, but rather as evidence of how artificially
low standards have been maintained in Indian literary culture. The comparison
serves to demonstrate what authentic literary achievement looks like when not
constrained by systemic mediocrity.
The
Discovery of Systemic Nature:
The transition from believing in personal inadequacy to recognizing systemic
dysfunction represents the core epistemological shift the piece advocates. This
mirrors how marginalized communities must move from internalized oppression to
systemic analysis.
The Mechanics of Literary Apartheid
Categorization as Control Mechanism
The
author's analysis of "Dalit literature" as a category reveals
sophisticated understanding of how power maintains itself through apparent
accommodation. This operates through several mechanisms:
Containment
Strategy: By creating a
separate category, the establishment achieves multiple objectives:
- Prevents
authentic voices from challenging mainstream mediocrity directly
- Maintains
the fiction that mainstream literature represents "universal"
Indian experience
- Creates a
patronizing dynamic where genuine talent is "introduced" and
"contextualized" by inferior gatekeepers
- Allows the
system to claim inclusivity while maintaining hierarchical control
The
Patronage Trap: The author
identifies how marginalized writers face a devils' bargain - accept
categorization and gain platform, or reject it and face exclusion. This creates
a system where even resistance becomes co-opted.
Authenticity
Arbitrage: The
establishment profits from authentic voices by commodifying their experiences
while simultaneously maintaining the structural conditions that create those
experiences. This represents a particularly cynical form of exploitation -
feeding off the very suffering the system creates.
The Manufacturing of Literary Mediocrity
The
piece reveals how sustained mediocrity isn't accidental but structurally
necessary for maintaining social control:
Reality
Avoidance as Ideology: Mainstream
Indian literature's disconnection from lived reality isn't artistic limitation
but ideological necessity. Authentic representation would expose the brutality
of existing arrangements and potentially catalyze resistance.
The
Mutual Acclaim Ecosystem: The author
identifies how a closed system of reciprocal validation maintains quality
control at artificially low levels. This prevents genuine excellence from
disrupting established hierarchies.
Mystification
as Defense Mechanism: The retreat
into claims of "Indian mystical spiritual ways" represents classic
defensive positioning - creating untranslatable uniqueness to avoid objective
quality assessment.
Bama as Revolutionary Exemplar
The Threat of Authentic Representation
The
author's analysis of Bama's work reveals why genuine literary achievement poses
existential threat to the established order:
Unmediated
Reality: Bama's direct
presentation of everyday brutality strips away the comfortable abstractions
through which the educated classes distance themselves from systemic violence.
Her work makes complicity visible and immediate.
Technical
Superiority: By
demonstrating literary excellence while representing marginalized experience,
Bama's work destroys the implicit assumption that authentic representation
requires sacrifice of artistic quality. This challenges the entire framework
justifying mainstream mediocrity.
Subversion
Through Normalcy: The author
astutely notes that Bama's work isn't "rebellious" or
"subversive" - it simply presents normal human experience with
clarity and skill. The fact that this feels revolutionary exposes how distorted
mainstream representation has become.
The Impossibility of Co-optation
What
makes Bama's achievement particularly threatening is its resistance to easy
assimilation:
Quality
Transcendence: Her technical
excellence makes patronizing "contextualization" obviously
inadequate. The work speaks for itself with authority that cannot be diminished
through categorization.
Reality
Anchoring: The specificity
and authenticity of her representation makes it impossible to abstract into
comfortable generalizations or exotic mystification.
Systemic
Exposure: Her work reveals
the gap between claimed representation and actual reality so starkly that it
exposes the fraudulent nature of mainstream literary claims.
The Broader Epistemological Challenge
Rejecting the Framework of Recognition
The
author's argument extends beyond literature to challenge the entire framework
through which marginalized experiences are "recognized" by dominant
institutions:
The
Politics of Introduction: The author's
anger at mediocre writers presuming to "introduce" superior talent
reveals how recognition itself becomes a mechanism of subordination. The act of
introduction implies authority and hierarchy that authentic achievement should
render absurd.
Identity
vs. Reality: By rejecting
caste-based literary categories, the author advocates for a fundamental
epistemological shift - from organizing around imposed identities to organizing
around shared human reality and authentic representation.
The
Colonial Academic Complex: The piece
identifies how Indian literary institutions have internalized colonial
frameworks, creating exotic representations for Western consumption while
ignoring domestic realities.
Revolutionary Implications
The Strategy of Total Rejection
Rather
than advocating reform within existing literary institutions, the author calls
for complete rejection of their authority and frameworks:
Delegitimization: By exposing the systemic mediocrity and
fraudulent claims of established literary culture, the piece works to strip
these institutions of moral and intellectual authority.
Alternative
Aesthetic Standards: The implicit
argument is that quality and authenticity should be the only relevant criteria,
making existing hierarchies and categories irrelevant.
Direct
Engagement: The piece
models its own argument by engaging directly with literary merit without
reference to institutional validation or categorization.
The Wider Social Project
The
literary analysis serves as entry point for broader social transformation:
Consciousness
Shift: By
demonstrating how cultural institutions maintain oppressive systems, the piece
works to develop critical consciousness about other institutional arrangements.
Solidarity
Through Quality: The argument
implicitly advocates for alliances based on shared commitment to truth and
excellence rather than identity categories that may serve power.
Systemic
Confrontation: Rather than
seeking accommodation within existing arrangements, the piece advocates for
fundamental challenge to the entire edifice.
Limitations and Tensions
Strategic Considerations
While
the analysis is sophisticated, certain tensions merit consideration:
The
Platform Paradox: Complete
rejection of existing frameworks may limit reach and impact, potentially
constraining the very consciousness-raising the piece advocates.
The
Transition Problem: The piece
doesn't fully address how marginalized communities navigate the period between
rejecting existing categories and achieving the transformed society where such
categories become irrelevant.
The
Collective Action Challenge:
Individual rejection of imposed frameworks, while personally liberating, may
not address the need for collective organizing to challenge structural
arrangements.
Methodological Questions
Universalism
vs. Specificity: The argument
for universal human standards raises questions about how to acknowledge
particular experiences of oppression without falling into imposed
categorization.
The
Quality Standard: While
advocating for objective literary merit, the piece doesn't fully address how
aesthetic standards themselves may reflect particular cultural perspectives and
power arrangements.
Conclusion: The Radical Potential of Authentic
Representation
This
piece represents a sophisticated analysis of how cultural institutions function
to maintain oppressive social arrangements. Its power lies not just in its
critique of literary mediocrity, but in its revelation of the systemic nature
of that mediocrity and its connection to broader patterns of social control.
The
author's celebration of Bama's achievement becomes a model for broader social
transformation - demonstrating that authentic representation of marginalized
experience, when executed with excellence and integrity, poses fundamental
challenge to existing arrangements. The work suggests that the path forward
lies not in seeking recognition within existing frameworks, but in creating new
standards based on truth, quality, and authentic human experience.
The
piece's revolutionary potential lies in its refusal to accept the terms of
debate set by existing power structures. By rejecting both mainstream literary
mediocrity and the categorization of resistance, it opens space for genuinely
transformative cultural and social arrangements. This represents not just
literary criticism, but a blueprint for broader social change through the
assertion of authentic human dignity and excellence.





