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Awais Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Pixxel, the Bangalore startup building hyperspectral satellites that can spot a dying crop or an oil spill invisible to the human eye. Pixxel builds its satellites in India and sells the data worldwide, including to NASA and the US National Reconnaissance Office. Its new US subsidiary, Pixxel Federal, set off online accusations that the company is controlled by the CIA. We met him days later, inside Pixxel HQ. He answers every charge on the record.

In this episode, Vinamre and Awais discuss:

• Inside Pixxel HQ: mission control, a live satellite pass over Svalbard, and the clean room where satellites are built

• Pixxel Federal: the CIA allegations, trolls targeting the founders, and the crab mentality in Indian spacetech

• National security: dual-use satellites, zero Chinese components, and how India hid the Pokhran tests from satellites

• Starlink in India: Elon vs Rahul Gandhi, security fears, and Jio's plan for its own constellation

• Asteroid mining: Pixxel's 60-year plan, space tourism, and the growing space debris problem

• Aliens, the Fermi Paradox, Dark Forest theory, and what moon bases could give us

• Surviving hit pieces, how Pixxel uses AI, and why GPUs are heading to orbit

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Pixxel: https://www.pixxel.space

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:01:02 – Where Satellites Get Their Orders

00:01:58 – Satellites Circle Over The North Pole

00:04:58 – The Satellite That Gave Them Trouble

00:06:08 – How Satellites Avoid Crashing In Space

00:08:04 – What If A Satellite Goes Missing

00:09:04 – Why Dust Can Destroy A Satellite

00:11:40 – What A Satellite Looks Like Inside

00:13:08 – Engineers Send Their Messages To Space

00:13:36 – Meet Awais Ahmed Of Pixxel

00:14:09 – Is Pixxel Secretly An American Company

00:16:45 – The Hate Messages Pixxel's Founders Got

00:17:52 – Can Pixxel Leak India's Secrets

00:22:39 – No Chinese Parts In These Satellites

00:23:45 – Are Rivals Behind The Hate

00:26:14 – How America Sees Indian Satellites

00:29:16 – Armies Are Racing Into Space

00:31:49 – Pixxel's Plan To Mine Asteroids

00:36:10 – Space Holidays In Our Lifetime

00:40:12 – Space Junk Is A Real Problem

00:42:44 – Why Haven't We Found Aliens Yet

00:45:50 – What The Moon Can Give Us

00:51:18 – Climate Change Seen From Space

00:55:00 – What Pixxel Launches Next

00:57:23 – Starlink In India: Is It Safe

01:00:43 – Jio Wants Its Own Satellites

01:03:24 – How India Hid Pokhran From Satellites

01:06:18 – How Awais Deals With Haters

01:14:16 – Pixxel's AI And Computers In Space

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Varun Mayya built his first company, Jobspire, as a college student and sold it to a US firm three years later. He went on to write the Bloomsbury bestseller Pyjama Profit, run Avalon and Scenes, and grow a YouTube channel past a million subscribers explaining AI to India. He now runs Aeos, a 600-person content and AI company, and is spending his own money on Unleash the Avatar, a soulslike he calls India’s shot at a world-class console game.

In this episode, Vinamre and Varun discuss:

- AI and jobs: the Mona Lisa printer test, Husain's ₹40 crore original vs ₹500 print, utility vs preference work

- Building Unleash the Avatar: scanning Chanderi at dawn, Johnny Yong Bosch as Vikram, a hand-coded combat system

- Designing an Indian hell: Bali's split gates, Yamraj's kinkaras, and hell as a government office with token numbers

- The ship captain theory of building a company: recruiting misfits, surviving mutiny, managing belief over risk

- Why you shouldn't build an AI company: game studios vs nuts-and-bolts businesses, AI research as "reverse Robin Hood"

- Ideas as mind viruses: SCP's anti-memes, the wrong freelancing dream, how your city and circle rewrite ambition

- Why storytelling beats technology: WWE, Mark Antony, branded water, daily writing, and the "zip file" problem.

Follow Varun Mayya on:

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:00:39 – Nikita Bier's Personalised Games Idea

00:04:57 – Mona Lisa Test For AI Jobs

00:08:26 – Scanning Chanderi For Photogrammetry

00:11:12 – Subscribe to The Last Library Newsletter

00:12:39 – Millet Potions Instead Of Elf Potions

00:13:33 – Unleash The Avatar Trailer Backlash

00:17:11 – Why Indian Games Should Compete On Drama

00:19:50 – Gaming Is Going The YouTube Way

00:21:54 – How Rockstar Beat Everyone

00:25:35 – Why Varun Won't Reveal The Budget

00:27:48 – Why Varun Is Building A Game

00:30:33 – Game Dev vs Web Dev

00:33:35 – Breaking The Hero's Journey

00:39:24 – Johnny Yong Bosch Voices Vikram

00:41:16 – Bali's Gates To Naraka

00:47:23 – Hell As A Government Office

00:48:31 – Why Storytelling Runs Tech

00:54:13 – How To Find Your North Star

00:56:21 – Ship Captain Theory Of Startups

01:09:41 – SCP Anti-Memes And Mind Viruses

01:11:08 – The Freelancing Trap

01:19:31 – The Writing Habit That Compounds

01:26:18 – AI-Proof Advice For Every Generation

01:28:09 – Nuts And Bolts Beat Game Studios

01:31:20 – AI Research Is Reverse Robin Hood

01:36:26 – Why Varun Lost 30 IQ Points

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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I’m back after a month away, and this one is just me, no guest. I got married, moved out of Bombay, and spent the gap reading instead of recording. So I sat down and answered everything you have been asking: how I met my wife, why I kept it private, the scam that is the Indian wedding industry, growing older, wasted potential, and my honest take on the politics everyone keeps dragging me into. Half of this is me talking to myself as much as to you. It feels good to be back.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – I Got Married Last Month

00:01:06 – How I Met Her

00:02:08 – Why I'm Keeping it Private

00:02:22 – Why I Finally Married

00:06:03 – The Wedding Industry Scammed Me

00:11:04 – Marriage Ended My Workaholism

00:12:26 – Nobody Marries Anymore

00:20:05 – Future of Dostcast

00:22:45 – I Feel Everything Too Deeply

00:25:31 – I Wasted My Twenties

00:34:52 – How I Look At Art

00:37:07 – Why I Stopped Networking

00:39:05 – My Favourite Cocktail Bars

00:41:19 – My Honest Take On Politics

00:45:36 – Alcohol Made Us Human

00:47:37 – Conclusion

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Suhel Seth is one of India's most recognisable public voices, a marketing man, author, and commentator who has spent decades in the rooms where power actually sits. He has advised prime ministers, briefed Vajpayee's 1999 campaign, and counts the Tatas among his closest associations. His new book, WTF India: Are We Losing the Plot, turns that insider's eye on everything urban India complains about and then forgets by morning. Blunt, funny, and completely unwilling to let anyone, including himself, off the hook.

In this episode, Vinamre and Suhel discuss:

• Why "jugaad", "chalega", and "don't worry" are the three phrases killing India, and the Anand Mahindra tweet that started it all

• The Gurugram rant that went viral, flood deaths, leaking new airports, and 71 of India's top 100 companies sitting in a city that doesn't work

• Bribes as a way of life, from a death certificate for his own mother to the cop who arrested the DJ instead of the complainant

• Indira Gandhi, the licence Raj, and why he blames her for ruining "the idea of India"

• The Cancer Express, free treatment nobody knows about, and his unbuilt idea for a 3,000-bed hospital on Ayodhya land

• Education versus knowledge, Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, and why he reads a book a day

Is India even a democracy, 42% vote shares, election spending in the crores, and what politicians confess to him in private

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:02:34 – Suhel Seth On Jugaad Culture

00:05:19 – Leaking Parliament And Monsoon Flooding

00:07:18 – Delhi Air Pollution And Gurugram

00:09:50 – Civic Sense At Taj Bengal

00:12:46 – Star News And Rupert Murdoch

00:15:13 – Gurugram Rant That Went Viral

00:18:14 – Bribes, Speed Money, Death Certificates

00:21:14 – WTF India Is About Solutions

00:25:54 – What Politicians Admit In Private

00:28:35 – Dhan Mill And Sainik Farms Illegal

00:29:35 – How Indira Gandhi Damaged India

00:31:44 – Cancer Express And Tata Hospitals

00:34:47 – Education As India's Change Agent

00:43:34 – Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Housing

00:48:08 – Sofitel Smoking Bluff Story

00:53:01 – Is Indian Democracy Really Democratic

01:00:57 – India As A Civilizational Legacy

01:04:27 – Audience Q&A

01:16:09 – Chandrasekaran And Tata Sons Future

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Yashovardhan Azad spent his career at the top of Indian security. He headed the Special Division of the Intelligence Bureau that runs VIP protection, and he personally handled security for the Prime Minister, the President, and the Indian cricket team's 2004 tour of Pakistan. He is also the son of a former Bihar Chief Minister, so he watched power operate from both sides. His book, Policing the Republic, pulls apart why Indian policing is broken and who keeps it that way. He talks like a man with nothing left to protect: names, dates, and stories most officers take to the grave.

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Buy His Book Policing the Republic: https://www.amazon.in/s?k=9789361315923

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Coming Up

00:01:47 - His Father Vs The Coal Mafia

00:04:01 - India's Secret Transfer Mafia

00:07:05 - Inside Pakistan For Cricket Diplomacy

00:08:28 - Peshawar Was A Nightmare

00:11:22 - "Will They Spare Sachin?"

00:16:22 - Three Hotels, Later Bombed

00:17:37 - Z+ Security Tiers Explained

00:20:39 - The PM's 20-Minute Nightmare

00:22:39 - Modi's Jhalmuri And Broken Protocol

00:24:41 - Abdul Kalam's Bravest Question

00:27:24 - Trump Attack, Rushdie Stabbing

00:29:45 - Gandhi Family SPG: Revenge?

00:32:02 - Rahul Gandhi's Security Breach

00:33:15 - Honest Officers Get Punished

00:36:41 - "Transfer Me, I Don't Care"

00:43:38 - Student Riots And Gabbar Singh

00:46:14 - Jailed MPs Voted In Parliament

00:48:35 - Divya Mittal And Lateral Entry

00:53:46 - Naxals Ran A Parallel Government

00:55:44 - Hidma's Killer Battalion

01:03:58 - How Police Bribes Work

01:07:07 - The Peer Gate Riot

01:11:13 - When Can Police Beat You

01:14:49 - One Drug Law, Two Rules

01:18:14 - Communal Riots From Inside

01:20:48 - What Do Police Protect

01:22:43 - Home Ministry And NEET Mess

01:27:11 - CBI Protects The Ruling Party

01:32:25 - Officers Of A Lost Era

#ajitdoval #naxals #naxalattack #indiapakistan #modi

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Krish Ashok is the science educator who has spent years talking Indians out of fearing their own food. A Chennai-born engineer by training, he built a 1.4 million-strong following by applying real science to the kitchen and calmly dismantling the panic around microwaves, frozen food, and drinking water with meals. His book Masala Lab decoded the science of Indian cooking. In this conversation he turns the same lens on the body: fat loss, protein, gut bacteria, supplements, and the wellness industry that profits from keeping you anxious. Evidence-first, unbothered by trends, and uninterested in the fear economy most health content runs on.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:47 – The Food Fear Crisis

00:03:09 – Negativity Bias And Clickbait

00:07:53 – Cutting Protein On A Diet

00:09:34 – Food, Politics, And Religion

00:12:15 – Public Water And Hygiene

00:14:17 – Why Examine Your Poop

00:16:06 – Seven Types Of Poop

00:19:39 – Fat Loss Is Mostly Breathing

00:24:42 – GLP-1: India Vs America

00:28:11 – The Protein Obsession Problem

00:28:46 – Why Excess Protein Hurts You

00:36:08 – Eating Safe While Travelling

00:42:04 – Is Saturated Fat Really Bad

00:43:13 – Sugar Industry Paid Harvard

00:43:57 – Seed Oils Vs Ghee

00:47:49 – Nutrients Vs Whole Foods

00:48:49 – Supplements Are Expensive Urine

00:51:23 – Fat-Soluble Vitamins Can Overdose

00:51:45 – Chai And Iron Absorption

00:53:17 – Do Probiotics Actually Work

00:54:58 – Soluble Fiber Feeds Gut Bacteria

00:56:34 – Lactobacillus And Detox Cleanses

00:56:48 – H Pylori And Ulcers

01:01:06 – Gut Health Means Small Intestine

01:07:28 – Eno Does Not Fix Acidity

01:13:34 – Health Has Become Performative

01:14:54 – Vitamin D Deficiency Explained

01:16:53 – Melanin, Sunlight, And Skin Cancer

01:21:22 – Vegetarian Deficiencies And B12

01:22:31 – Vegan Diet Deficiency Risks

01:30:01 – Veg Vs Non-Veg Labels

01:31:53 – Hidden Sugar In Health Foods

01:33:07 – Ancestral Diets And Marketing

01:37:11 – Read Labels, Resist Marketing

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Pankaj Saran spent four decades inside India's foreign and national security establishment. He served in the Prime Minister's Office under successive governments, was India's Ambassador to Russia and High Commissioner to Bangladesh, and from 2018 to 2021 was Deputy National Security Adviser under Narendra Modi. He has sat in closed-door summits with Vladimir Putin, was inside the PMO through the 26/11 attacks under Manmohan Singh, and saw up close how differently Modi and Manmohan ran the same office. Today he runs NatStrat, one of India's few serious strategic affairs think tanks. Blunt, precise, and completely uninterested in the myth-making around how power actually works.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:37 – Meeting Putin Face To Face

00:03:29 – Putin's Note-Card Method

00:04:03 – What Putin Is Really Like

00:05:34 – Manmohan Singh Up Close

00:11:01 – 26/11 Hits The PMO

00:13:20 – Modi Versus Manmohan Singh

00:18:35 – Modi The Delhi Outsider

00:19:49 – Modi The Bold Risk-Taker

00:20:57 – Do Global Summits Actually Work

00:24:24 – Trump's On-Camera Deal Style

00:25:40 – Will India Bow To China

00:27:26 – Who Controls The World's Data

00:29:56 – Big Tech Bigger Than Nations

00:31:27 – Decouple Or De-Risk China

00:35:34 – Why India Has No Google

00:36:06 – India's New Civil Defence Force

00:38:53 – War Without Firing A Shot

00:40:58 – The World In Five Years

00:42:30 – The End Of Pax Americana

00:43:41 – Why India Won't Drop Russia

00:46:21 – Diplomacy Is A Chessboard

00:48:57 – Who Wants India To Rise

00:52:02 – What The PMO Actually Does

00:57:54 – Why India Created The NSA

01:01:53 – Telecom's 90% China Risk

01:05:08 – Will UPSC Be Scrapped

01:08:01 – Books That Shaped Him

#bricssummit #bricssummit2026 #brics #modi #pmoindia #nsa

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Harshal Singh is a marine engineer who has spent most of his career on oil tankers. He emailed us from inside a war zone: stuck on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz while Iran blockaded it and traded fire with American forces, watching ships around him get hit by drones and missiles. One technical fault delayed his vessel by a day, and the ship that took his slot in the queue was struck by a missile the next morning. He lived the geopolitics most people only scroll past. He tells it with no drama and no myth-making about life at sea.

In this episode, Vinamre and Harshal discuss:

• The Strait of Hormuz blockade from inside — Iran vs American forces, drone/missile-hit ships, and the delay that saved his ship
• Ship-to-ship oil transfers, Sinokor tankers, and how Venezuela, Qatar and the VLCC trade move the world's crude
• Seafarers abandoned at sea — unpaid wages, weak unions, and what happens when a shipping company walks away
• Sailor life nobody sees — Starlink at sea, onboard habits, food, and how it keeps the world's shelves stocked
• Every kind of ship — cruise liners, bulk/car/livestock carriers, ULCCs, freak waves, and naval architects who design for them
• Why he left an advertising degree for the sea — the best ports he's seen, and crew friendships
• What's next after years at sea, plus Vinamre's Japan trip and how travel changes worldview

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:24 – Strait of Hormuz blockade

00:02:31 – Iran America war explained

00:05:42 – Missile hits next ship

00:06:55 – Somali pirates hijacking ships

00:08:59 – Pirate ransom and escorts

00:13:25 – One month Hormuz posting

00:22:59 – Ship to ship transfer

00:24:58 – Daily drone attacks at sea

00:31:12 – Sailor salary and pay

00:33:10 – Sinokor tanker company explained

00:34:23 – Venezuela oil and sanctions

00:38:37 – Qatar and Gulf power

00:42:24 – Drone jammers and defences

00:50:04 – Sailors left to die

00:55:31 – Sailor life and food

00:57:23 – Starlink drinking and smoking

00:59:44 – Why he became a sailor

01:01:01 – Most beautiful ports visited

01:03:13 – Cruise ships explained

01:05:31 – Bulk car and cattle carriers

01:08:04 – Freak waves and naval architects

01:11:53 – Friendships and stability at sea

01:14:00 – Learning cultures at sea

01:19:24 – Whats next and Japan

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Vishal Bhargava is a real estate educator and former journalist who left banking to say what property brokers won't. He breaks down what homes in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bangalore are actually worth on YouTube and X, and called Gurgaon a "house of cards" a year before its brokers turned bearish. He treats real estate as due diligence, not broker slogans.

In this episode, Vinamre and Vishal discuss:

• Bandra's scarcity premium and crumbling infrastructure
• How DLF, Hiranandani and Prestige became your municipality
• Building a city from scratch and India's missing town squares
• Killing a city (Kolkata's unions) and why Thane could overtake Mumbai
• Marine Drive's rent-controlled flats and Parsi colonies as planning masterclass
• Magarpatta's farmer-owned city and "creator zones"
• Rigged real estate content and brokers turning bearish on Gurgaon after him

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Land Owners Control Everything

00:03:20 – Scarcity Premium, Bandra Truth

00:07:05 – Why Youth Avoid Property

00:09:15 – Real Estate Rewards Sophistication

00:10:27 – Replace Your Coffee With This

00:11:34 – Cities Crumbling: Water, Sewage

00:13:35 – Migration Alone Drives Prices

00:14:27 – DLF, Hiranandani, Prestige Playbook

00:18:01 – Making Indian Cities Livable

00:20:28 – Adani, Ambani Reshaping Mumbai

00:22:50 – Why Town Planners Fail

00:26:02 – Mumbai's Vanishing Open Spaces

00:28:09 – Roleplay: Design A City

00:29:37 – The New City Formula

00:31:53 – Sectors, Symbols, Town Squares

00:35:43 – Pay To Sit In Parks

00:40:32 – Define Your City's Identity

00:43:59 – Killing A City: Kolkata

00:45:55 – Thane Could Overtake Mumbai

00:46:45 – Navi Mumbai Beats Gurgaon

00:48:39 – Bangalore's Unbeatable Value

00:51:11 – Real Estate Nationalism Trap

00:53:04 – Marine Drive's ₹500 Rents

00:55:37 – Parsi Colonies Planning Masterclass

00:58:25 – India's Affordable Housing Failure

01:02:48 – When Two Cities Merge

01:05:21 – Magarpatta: City Built By Farmers

01:08:47 – Communal, Senior, Farm Living

01:15:23 – Special Creator Zones Idea

01:23:50 – Can't Criticise Real Estate

01:25:55 – Conclusion

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Anirudhya Mitra spent his years at India Today and The Times of India breaking the stories most reporters never got near: the Bofors scam, the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, the drug wars running through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. His book Ninety Days, on the hunt for Rajiv Gandhi's killers, became a national bestseller and the basis for the SonyLIV series The Hunt. His latest, The Delhi Directive, goes inside R&AW's covert war and the operations Delhi will never admit to. He has spent decades cultivating intelligence sources, recording meetings no one knew were being recorded, and keeping notes on some of the most powerful men in the country. Blunt, precise, and completely unromantic about how the spy game actually works.

In this episode, Vinamre and Anirudhya discuss:

• India's intelligence machine — RAW, IB, and how the NSA became its most powerful figure under Ajit Doval
• Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon — empire-building over pure terror, and the ISI deal behind his Karachi refuge
• The Nikhil Gupta case — Vikas Yadav, the Pannun plot, and a spy's life abroad
• Jadhav, Bishnoi, Goldy Brar — why captured spies stay alive, and prisoner swaps via Meng Wanzhou
• A.S. Dulat and whether agencies serve themselves or the government
• The craft — secret recordings, notes on powerful men, phone tapping, and "off the record" costs
• Cultivating sources — earning trust, resisting narratives, using AI to avoid being played

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Coming Up

00:02:02 - Intelligence hierarchy, Doval, Dhurandhar

00:07:18 - Replace your coffee with this

00:08:24 - Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon

00:12:17 - Nikhil Gupta, Vikas Yadav, Pannun

00:29:25 - Kulbhushan Jadhav, Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar

00:36:13 - Spy world goes mainstream, Dulat

00:40:40 - Head of R&AW

00:43:28 - Media controlled by the government

00:47:19 - Agencies: deep state or controlled?

00:54:19 - Secretly recording sources, sting stories

01:02:36 - Keeping notes on powerful people

01:09:32 - Off the record, sources, phone tapping

01:15:32 - Access to power, earning trust

01:23:11 - Fighting fake narratives, AI fact-check

01:30:11 - Conclusion

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

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