We Lived as Borrowers
We Lived as Borrowers
What Ancient Living Knew About Sustainability
By Mohan Krishnamurthy
Long before sustainability became a global conversation, it was a way of life.
In We Lived as Borrowers, Mohan Krishnamurthy reflects on a world where living left no footprint — where food returned to soil, water followed cycles, homes dissolved back into earth, and restraint was instinctive rather than instructed.
Rooted in lived experience from Tamil Nadu yet universally resonant, this book explores how ancient living quietly understood interdependence, reciprocity, and consequence — principles modern science is only now rediscovering through climate action, water conservation, and soil regeneration.
Drawing inspiration from the philosophical insights embedded in traditions like Mantra Pushpam — without turning religious or ritualistic — the book invites readers to look beyond labels and rediscover meaning. Not by going back in time, but by carrying forward what once worked.
This is not a call to reject modernity.
It is an invitation to integrate memory into progress.
Calm, reflective, and deeply human, We Lived as Borrowers is for readers who believe the future depends not just on innovation — but on attention.