For 170 years, Bishop Caldwell’s 1856 etymology of Drāviḍa — Tamiḻ → Damiḷa → Drāviḍa — has been treated as settled. It isn’t. A Sanskrit-internal reading, Tri-vidā (knowers of the three), anchored in Sage Agastya, the Sanskrit-speaking Vedic rishi who carried letters southward, fits the civilisational reality far more closely.
India’s higher education system assessed 13,892 student suicides in 2023 — and called it someone else’s problem. At Academic Network’s Technology Series webinar on 28 March 2026, Prof. Dr. M M Ananth asked the question institutions have avoided: What is assessment truly for? The IACT Framework — Interpersonal, Adaptability, Cognitive, Technical — reveals that 75% of professional effectiveness is determined by persona traits, yet our entire assessment architecture measures only the remaining 25%. With 1,329 registered participants, this was one of the most searching conversations Indian higher education has had about itself. Read the full report
One in seven young Indians carries a diagnosable mental health condition. Twelve billion work days are lost globally every year to mental health issues. And the single most important question in Indian education — are our students okay, as human beings? — has never once been asked in a board meeting.
Until now.
A psychiatrist, a university builder and a war veteran sat down to talk about what we have been measuring, what we have been ignoring, and what it would actually cost to change. The answers were uncomfortable, evidence-based and, in places, quietly devastating.
Read on.
Anthropic’s CEO says 50% of white-collar entry jobs vanish within 5 years. His survival advice? Focus on human-centred skills — empathy, adaptability, critical thinking.That’s literally what the IACT framework measures. 75% of your professional value isn’t technical. Most people have never had it mapped.Do you know your 75%?
India quietly became the world’s 3rd AI power (Stanford HAI 2025), the fastest-rising G20 nation in university rankings (54 in QS, 2nd in THE), and the architect of digital infrastructure the world is adopting. Meanwhile, the Sri Sathya Sai Water Project — serving 3.19 million people across 1,500 villages — sits on the UN SDGs platform as a global model. Critique is welcome. Defeatism dressed as commentary is not. Let us not be belittled by the belittling ones.
Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, 2025, introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 15, 2025, certainly warrants wide, transparent,…
When Padma Shri Dr. V. Mohan said “If you are able to give free insurance to everybody, you can walk into any medical facility and take everything free,” 1,003 healthcare professionals across 135 cities listened. The Technology Series Healthcare webinar—moderated by Prof. M Ananth, FCS (Founder, Academic Network; Former Vice Chancellor) and Dr. M. Gopi Krishna (HOD Pediatrics, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital)—brought together India’s finest minds including Dr. Mohan (700K+ patients served), Prof. B.S. Satyanarayana (Karnataka Vidya Ratna 2025), and SCTIMST Director Prof. Dr. Sanjay Behari. Prof. Ananth articulated the transformation framework: Cooperation (mindset) → Collaboration (skills) → Co-creation → Co-evolution. The 75/25 principle: sustainable change requires 75% mindset, 25% technical skills. Free access. World-class insights. This is healthcare democratization in action.
The article captures the essence of sustainable human connection—built not on commerce or spectacle, but on the recognition of shared humanity across all boundaries. Taylor Hiester’s choice to pause, to grieve, to honor a fellow aviator from another nation, stands as a powerful testament to what truly endures beyond “the black smoke.”
Needonomics for Senior Citizens Living Joyfully in the Golden Years Senior years are a unique gift—a time to savor life’s…
The “Sathya Bodaka” as He introduced Himself to the world, made the way, amended the way, corrected the way and made it a high-way for us, to follow to establish in the same consciousness as He. That in which we shall not feel as if we are merely the bodily expression, but keep ourselves in the state of witness. When such becomes the established state of the consciousness in us, the Truth (Sathya) is born in us. That day is the birth of Sathya Sai in us. The form that expressed as Sathya Sai was a mere medium for His expression so as to communicate to us that direction, that Truth – which we may not otherwise relate to and tread. Having expressed in a form He has completed His work for us. Have we at-the-least started? The project and mission of Sathya Sai is thus on, till each individual arrives at and establishes in that absolute consciousness.
Data surrounds us constantly, but remains neutral until it forms within our consciousness. Through Upavasa—the ancient practice of sitting near our inner formations—we assess and transform them. This sacred journey releases us from accumulated information, leaving only wisdom. From data through transformation to freedom.
Acquiring new skills and enacting personality change both invoke neurobiological adaptation, yet these processes differ substantially in terms of explicit resources, timescales, and intervention strategies. This paper synthesizes current neuroscientific evidence comparing skill learning—which involves formation and strengthening of specific neural circuits—with personality change, which touches deep-seated patterns of emotion, behavior, and cognition through extended, multifactorial approaches reshaping broader neural networks. We examine the neural mechanisms, resource requirements, temporal dynamics, and practical implications of these two transformational pathways, with particular attention to the IACT Assessment framework that operationalizes these distinctions for individual and institutional development.
