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0:00 Welcome to Episode 358
5:53 Manipur solution: evict foreigners
6:44 Sovereignty index hidden dependencies
10:26 Can PM rebuild cities?
13:28 India's next ten years
17:14 Delhi's concrete jungle
19:48 Space companies and SpaceX
21:22 NEP 2020 education failure
24:23 Supervolcanoes and meteor extinction
26:38 Will Russia attack NATO?
28:09 India's massive energy hunt
29:16 Nilesh Oak's Ramayana dates
30:39 Mechanics of sanctions explained
34:07 India-UAE defense deal
36:51 Pakistan-Afghanistan border war
38:28 Why Yugoslavia war collapsed
39:19 Rivalry forces nations forward
43:27 Use China as fuel
44:31 Wormholes versus vortex travel
50:05 Indian lithography startup Semilelet
55:07 Defending Earth from asteroids
1:01:44 Democracy versus benevolent dictatorship
1:05:49 Why complex life delayed
1:11:08 Government vision or reactive?
1:14:48 Why Sagittarius A quiet
1:19:26 China and India counterfactuals
1:20:19 Mathematician's path into AI
1:22:27 Why Iran struck UAE
1:24:06 India's global relevance dropping
1:28:08 Why Sikhs have Kuldevi
1:30:43 Is Pakistani music superior?
1:35:31 How Dutch got Cholas
1:37:53 Entertainers becoming world leaders
1:41:40 Can India become autarky
1:44:49 Energy crisis without vassalage
1:47:11 How to master mathematics
1:50:16 Irrelevant after G2 AI?
1:51:51 Army chief's peace criticized
1:55:43 Will China get Khrushchev?
1:58:11 Bringing back intro summaries
1:59:07 Why China delays Taiwan
2:01:50 Why investors leave India
2:03:42 Treaty of Chushul, ICJ
2:06:11 US-China meeting overshadowed BRICS
2:07:45 Gulf states after oil
2:09:29 US versus the world
2:11:03 Russia absorbs Ukrainian attacks
2:13:36 Exam blessings after loss
2:14:49 Indian data on American clouds
2:16:46 Assam transformed by BJP
2:19:12 Most influential Indian empire
2:21:47 White holes, new universes
2:24:49 Independent courts impossible
2:26:49 Controlling parents, nerdy men
2:29:46 Does observation create reality?
2:34:21 Great power and violence
2:35:26 How to apply logic
2:37:24 Is India lost cause?
2:39:38 India's missing corruption war
2:40:27 Why no One-India policy
2:41:45 Drone strike UAE nuclear
2:43:06 Compulsory languages debate
2:48:07 Presidential system, aspiring traitors
2:50:31 Stopping water to Pakistan
2:52:33 Resisting foreign press scrutiny
2:56:39 Cash incentives for births
2:57:38 Abhijit's daily routine
2:59:30 White holes and entropy
3:01:47 Europe rebuilt, India didn't
3:03:24 Greatest Gupta emperor
3:06:25 Why US can't print debt
3:09:55 Indra, Vritra and Vajra
3:12:16 Is Kerala successful communism?
3:14:10 Black holes versus neutron stars
3:19:43 Dyatlov Pass mystery
3:22:17 Understanding entropy and time
3:25:02 Race, caste and Arya
3:29:13 Why exam papers leak
3:30:23 Gravity at quantum level
3:34:54 Reabsorbing the subcontinent?
3:36:09 Russia's deliberate restraint
3:39:17 Indian IT shrinking from AI
3:44:05 Manipur disaster explained
3:47:08 Overcoming others' opinions
3:49:36 MH370 theories
3:51:09 Trump threatens Iran
3:52:22 Self-study and IISc admission
3:54:54 Rajput honor code weakness
3:58:05 Manufacturing over services
3:58:55 CK Raju on mathematics
3:59:59 Air India 171 investigation
4:01:40 How Mythos differs
4:05:21 Communism devours its supporters
4:06:22 Negotiating after 1971 victory
4:08:05 Vedic age: peak or decline?
4:13:08 Why communism becomes dictatorship
4:14:43 Do secret societies rule?
4:15:33 Can AI be sentient?
4:18:03 Was Luftwaffe history's best?
4:19:35 Closing thoughts