India is entering an era where power no longer sits only in governments, elections, or visible institutions — it operates through deep systems, narratives, capital flows, intelligence networks, and corporate influence.

⚔️ Manish Sabharwal — Why India Isn’t Creating Jobs, Regulatory Cholesterol & Fixing the Administrative State 🇮🇳📉

India doesn’t lack land.

It doesn’t lack capital.

And it certainly doesn’t lack labour.

So why isn’t it combining into prosperity the way it did in China?

In this sharp, no-nonsense conversation, Manish Sabharwal explains why India’s real bottleneck is not infrastructure or skills — but a regulatory mindset that treats innovation as “prohibited till permitted.”

We unpack why 1991 was necessary but incomplete, how regulatory cholesterol suffocates entrepreneurship, why civil-service reform is now unavoidable, and why productivity — not activism or spending — will decide India’s future.

From land, labour and capital — to licenses, inspections, criminalisation, universities, inequality and prosperity — this episode is a first-principles diagnosis of what is actually broken.

Not optimism.

Not ideology.

Just reality.

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⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – 00:55 • Introduction – India’s Growth Puzzle

00:55 – 03:45 • India Has Land, Capital & Labour — So What’s Missing?

03:45 – 06:10 • The China Comparison: Why They Could Combine Factors Faster

06:10 – 09:00 • “Prohibited Till Permitted” — The Core Indian Mindset Problem

09:00 – 12:10 • Regulatory Cholesterol: How Rules Strangle Enterprise

12:10 – 15:40 • Why Civil Service Reform Is Now the Binding Constraint

15:40 – 18:20 • Decriminalisation: Why Stupidity Shouldn’t Be a Crime

18:20 – 21:30 • Licenses, Inspections & The Culture of Fear

21:30 – 25:00 • Why 1950s Thinking Still Runs India

25:00 – 28:20 • Activism vs Productivity — Why Slogans Don’t Create Jobs

28:20 – 32:00 • Spending vs Prosperity — What Governments Get Wrong

32:00 – 35:30 • Trust-Based Regulation & India’s Digital Public Infrastructure

35:30 – 39:10 • Universities, Research & Why India Can’t Build Deep Science

39:10 – 42:40 • Lateral Entry, Performance & The Steel Cage State

42:40 – 46:30 • Why Entrepreneurs Are Treated Like Criminals

46:30 – 50:00 • State Capacity, City Productivity & Why States Compete Poorly

50:00 – 54:10 • Inequality vs Poverty — What Actually Matters

54:10 – 57:40 • Why India Still Can’t Create Enough Non-Farm Jobs

57:40 – 01:01:00 • What Must Change First — Practical Reform Priorities

01:01:00 – 01:05:30 • The Future of Work, Automation & India’s Risk Window

01:05:30 – 01:08:40 • Why 2025–2035 Will Decide India’s Trajectory

01:08:40 – 01:10:43 • Closing Thoughts — Fixing the Administrative State

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👤 Guest — Manish Sabharwal

Chairman, TeamLease Services | Economist & Public Policy Thinker

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⚔️ Col. Pavithran Rajan — Are We Already at War? Algorithms, Sovereignty & The Future of India’s National Security 🇮🇳🛰️

⚔️ Vivek Krishnan & Dinesh Shivanna — India’s Defense Tech Reality, Broken Incentives & What Must Change 🇮🇳🚀 Instagram → /carygotthebluesg ambition is rising — but the gap between what we need and what we can currently produce is still dangerously wide.

⚔️ Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla — Civil–Military Fusion, China’s Rise & The Future of India’s National Security 🇮🇳🚀⏱️ Chapters🎧 Listen & Subscribe👤 Guest — Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.)👤 Host — Roshan Cariappa

Wars are no longer won only on the battlefield — they are won in labs, factories, and innovation hubs.

In this eye-opening conversation, Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.) breaks down how India must rethink its national security strategy in an era shaped by AI, drones, defense-tech startups, and civil–military coordination.

From China’s rapid military–industrial expansion to Ukraine’s tech-driven warfare — we explore what India must do to stay secure, competitive, and future-ready.

This episode also uncovers the civilizational philosophy behind Saraswati → Lakshmi → Durga, and why our ability to convert knowledge into economic and military power will decide India’s destiny in the 21st century.

Not rhetoric.

Not theory.

Practical, urgent, and grounded in experience.

Chapters-

00:00 – 03:18 • Why Wars Are Now Won in Labs, Not Just Battlefields

03:18 – 05:45 • Saraswati → Lakshmi → Durga: India’s Civilizational Framework

05:45 – 09:55 • Nehru Era, Bureaucracy & Fear of the Military

09:55 – 14:50 • How China Leads Civil–Military Fusion

14:50 – 18:05 • Drones, AI & Startup Driven Warfare in Ukraine

18:05 – 22:24 • Israel’s Tech-Enabled Strike Model

22:24 – 26:50 • Why India Must Break Silos — Army, DRDO, Industry

26:50 – 31:02 • What the West is Redesigning — Faster R&D, Startup Access

31:02 – 36:12 • India’s Reform Momentum — But Still Not Enough

36:12 – 41:48 • Defense Procurement, Risk-Taking & Accountability

41:48 – 47:50 • A Need For Capacity, Orders, Velocity — Not Committees

47:50 – 53:47 • China’s Industrial Scale Advantage vs India

53:47 – 57:50 • National Security as Everyone’s Responsibility

57:50 – 01:04:26 • Startups, Deep Tech, AI Talent & Military Needs

01:04:26 – 01:08:07 • The Road Ahead — Innovation or Irrelevance

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Former Army Commander | Author – Civil Military Fusion

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⚔️Did the Mahabharata actually

For over a century, scholars have debated when the Mahabharata actually

In this episode, researcher Nilesh Nilkanth Oak joins Roshan Cariappa to break down his evidence-based method for dating India’s greatest epic using astronomy, geology, logic, and textual analysis.

Oak explains why most previous attempts fall apart, how ancient sky

This conversation explores ancient Indian knowledge systems, the limits of Western Indology, the Ramayana–Mahabharata chronology, and why a scientific approach can reshape our civilizational memory.

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⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – 01:00 • Introduction

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👤 Guest – Nilesh Nilkanth Oak

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👤 Host – Roshan Cariappa

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For over a century, the West has viewed Hindus through its own lens — first as mystics, now as misunderstood outsiders.

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