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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

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