All Episodes

Dancing with elephants and surviving: India in the world of generativeAI

Ep. 195: Is there a uniquely Bharatiya management style? How compatible is it with the current global scenario?

Ep. 194: The Quad is dead; Long live the Quad!

Ep. 193: "Trump to India: Drop Dead"?

India will collapse without digital sovereignty and Pax Indica: lessons from Hormuz

IITMAA Fireside Chats Ep. 5: Masterclass by Anuj Gupta on Policy and How Govt is now a Shaper and Enabler of Business, not a Regulator alone or an Obstacle

Ep. 191: Gulf War 3 has become a quagmire; India has no option but to pursue energy self-reliance

Ep. 190: The need for Pax Indica: Malacca choked 1,001 years ago; Hormuz choked in 2026

IITMAA Fireside Chats Ep. 04: Masterclass on India's semiconductor renaissance by Dr. Suraj Rengarajan, MD and Principal Technologist, Applied Materials India

Ep. 189: Drones may be a step-change as momentous as the arrival of tank warfare a century ago

Ep. 188: The Iran war has no winners, only losers, and some more so than others

Ep. 188: The Iran war has no winners, only losers, and some more so than others

Ep. 187: Journalism, AI, Washington Post and Rediff.com

Ep. 186: There is less than meets the eye in the India-US trade 'deal'

Ep. 185: The Epstein Files simply show elite depravity

Ep. 184: The India-EU FTA: triumph of hope over experience?

Ep. 183: Things fall apart. The center cannot hold

Ep. 182: The Trump Gamble on Venezuela

Ep. 181: Annus Horribilis: G2, spheres of influence, Trump National Security Strategy impact on India

Ep. 180: What the BJP win in Trivandrum may mean, or may not

Ep. 179: My dilemma about Kantara Chapter 1

Ep. 178: Yet another assault on Adani. We’ve seen this movie before

Ep. 03: Prof M S Rajashree on India's semiconductor and electronics play

Ep. 177: Will there be an exodus of Hindus from the US?

Ep. 176: Farm distress: the real reason behind Trump tariff tantrums?

Ep. 175: Where the India-hate is really coming from, and why

Ep. 02: Sri C M A Nayar onTrump Tariff Tantrums

Ep. 174: The rationale behind Trump's tariff tantrums

Ep 173: Trump tariff wars: Seeing them in context for India

Ep. 172: India and the Abhimanyu Syndrome: all alone

Ep. 171: How to spin-doctor and peddle narratives, the Western way

Ep. 170: Zohran Mamdani's Color Revolution in New York will not end well

Ep. 169: Has the Deep State 'turned' Trump?

Ep. 168: The mess in West Asia: geopolitics, military tactics, and the overall impact

Ep. 167: Despite air crashes, how can India leverage the sector's growth?

Ep. 166: The Ukrainian drone attack on Russia and the implications for India

Ep. 165: How Operation Sindoor was a win and a loss for India

Ep. 164: Operation Sindoor: Soft power, a step change in aerial warfare, and the Abhimanyu Syndrome

Ep. 163: Abroad at home | Pahalgam: Imperial fortresses and the settler-colonial complex at play

Ep. 162: Remembering the reticent cinematic genius Shaji N Karun and his staggering film Piravi

Ep. 161: Trump tariffs' impact on the Indian market, sector-wise and medium/long term

Ep. 159: Tulsi Gabbard's visit to India as Director of National Intelligence

Ep. 158: Britain plays an outsize, malign role in global chaos

Ep. 160: Ranjani Srinivasan and other students in trouble over Columbia University protests

Ep. 157: The end of the European Century

Ep. 156: The Second Coming of Trump: The Center Cannot Hold

Ep. 155: Trump's America and Modi's India: What's on the cards?

Ep. 154: No clear solution to immigration woes under Trump 2.0

Ep. 152: Greenland, Canada, Panama: Chronicles of a Foreign Policy Foretold?

Ep. 151: Boomeranged Narratives: Brits, H1-B, and Rape Gangs

Ep. 149: Remembering Varsha Bhosle, a 'revolution of Jupiter' later

Ep. 150: H1-B fuss: The unbearable heaviness of racism and religious bigotry

Ep. 148: Comrade Kirillov and the art of whistleblowing

Ep. 147: Abroad at home: The depressing regularity of regime-change operations

Ep. 146: Abroad at home: The double-edged sword of Trump’s immigration policy

Ep. 145: Why I prefer Trump

Ep. 144: The implications of a Trump Presidency for India

Ep. 143: Foreign Policy issues for India: POTUS election, BRICS+ meet, neighborly relations

Ep. 142: The implications of a Harris Presidency for India

Ep. 141: Narrative building on Canada by Five Eyes, and the clear and present danger of regime change in India

Ep. 140: Bharatiya Knowledge Systems can benefit from generativeAI

Ep. 138: Re-post of three articles from 2003, 2008, 2022 about India as a soft state, a failing state, and a serf state

Ep. 137: Dr Abhishek Puri on the Telegram fiasco as social media feels the heat

Ep. 136: The Case for Censorship: Disinformation needs to be suppressed

Ep. 135: Narayanan Komerath on the possible Chinese strategy behind the Bangladesh regime change

Ep. 134: The geo-political fallout from Bangladesh: What should India do?

Ep. 132: The ongoing tragedy of Wayanad and the Western Ghats: what must be done?

Ep. 133: Rape and humiliation as weapons against women: why is the Indian State soft on it?

Ep. 121: generative AI creates challenges in Intellectual Property and Epistemology

Ep. 119: The impact on India of the Israel-Hamas war and the eclipse of the Western world order

Ep. 118: Does the war in Israel mark the end of Pax Occidentalis?

Ep. 116: G20 and its fallout: India the swing state, IMEC and Trudeau’s tantrums

Ep. 115: Apartheid against Hindus in the so-called Hindu Rashtra?

Ep. 113: Udayanidhi Stalin has called for genocide and that must be taken seriously

Ep. 110: What a difference 10 years make!

Ep. 109: George T speaks about German/EU views on India and the fallout from the Ukraine war

Ep. 107: Paris is burning. Why?

Ep. 106: Permanent interests, not permanent friends, drive foreign policy

Ep. 105: Mr. Modi goes to Washington. It's deja vu all over again

Ep. 104: If India does not encourage and regulate Artificial Intelligence innovation, it could be game over

Ep. 103: No, the finance mandarins don’t always screw up; they only do it in petty ways

Ep. 102: Crown, Scepter and "The Saga of Dharmapuri"

Ep. 96: The fallout from Silicon Valley Bank: how did it fail, and why? And what are the consequences?

Ep. 95: The fallout from the Wuhan virus continues to roil the US

Ep 91: What ails the United States? Poor leadership, or malign forces?

Ep. 90: Sarpam Thullal, the Naga dance of Kerala

Ep. 89: Musharraf, the BBC hit-job documentary, and the background of Gujarat 2002

Ep. 86: Three exemplars of Indian cinema in 2022: RRR, The Kashmir Files, and Kantara

Ep. 85: A deplorable Supreme Court decision on Demonetization

Ep. 83: The FTX saga, and the many implosions in the US, especially in Big Tech

Ep. 82: Hindus, the diaspora and the Rishi Sunak phenomenon

Ep. 84: The big story in technology is generative AI, and it is like riding a tiger

Ep. 81: The US Midterm elections and the implications especially for India

Ep. 80: Kantara and Rocketry: Two heroes' journeys in a Hindu context

Ep. 79: 75 years: Have Midnight’s Children come of age?

Ep. 78: Cinema as metaphor: Enough with trashing Hindu sentiment, especially as streaming largesse fades!

Ep. 77: Concentrating President Biden’s mind wonderfully

Ep. 76: Does Roe v Wade foreshadow the end of the American Dream?

Ep. 75: Requiem for a Statesman: Abe Shinzo

Ep. 74: A tale of two Supreme Courts: best practices from the US and India need to be adopted