

Abhijit Chavda Podcast
Abhijit Chavda
Conversations with Abhijit Chavda: Indian & world history, science, geopolitics, power, culture, art, education, technology, philosophy, the future of humanity, and everything in between and beyond.
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Apr 6, 2022 • 1h 54min
#17 - Chandrachur Ghose: Bose - Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist
Chandrachur Ghose is an author, researcher and commentator on history, economics and environment. He has co-authored Conundrum: Subhas Bose's Life After Death. He is one of the founders of the pressure group Mission Netaji that has been the moving force behind the declassification of secret documents related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. His activism led to the declassification of over ten thousand pages in 2010.

Mar 4, 2022 • 1h 40min
#16 - Vedveer Arya: Correcting the Flawed Chronology of Indian History
Vedveer Arya is a chronologist, historian and author. He has written books such as "The Chronology of India: From Manu to Mahabharata", "The Chronology of India: From Mahabharata to Medieval Era", and "The Origin of the Christian Era: Fact or Fiction".

Feb 25, 2022 • 59min
#15 - Gaurie Dwivedi: Blinkers Off - How Will the World Counter China
Gaurie Dwivedi is a journalist, geopolitical analyst, and author of "Blinkers Off: How Will the World Counter China".

Feb 24, 2022 • 44min
#14 - Chemi Lhamo: Tibetan-Canadian Activist - Free Tibet
Chemi Lhamo is an India-born Tibetan-Canadian activist and former student leader. She is one of the 50 Canadians selected for Maclean’s annual power list 2022.

Feb 22, 2022 • 2h 12min
#13 - Dr. Isa Blumi: Destroying Yemen - A History of Capitalist Imperialism
Dr. Isa Blumi is an Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
He has authored and co-authored numerous books, including "Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World", which was published in 2018.

Feb 18, 2022 • 1h 16min
#12 - Dr. Edward Luttwak: India's Chinese Threat; China's Strategic Stupidity
Dr. Edward N. Luttwak is a world-renowned American military strategist and author known for his works on grand strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations.
He has, over a long and fabled career, advised presidents, prime ministers, governments, world leaders, and superpowers.
He has published over twenty books and is best known for being the author of "Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook".

Feb 17, 2022 • 48min
#11 - Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan: James Webb Space Telescope Explained
Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan is an astronomer and a James Webb Space Telescope project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) located in Baltimore, Maryland.
The STScI is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope. It is also the mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 22min
#10 - Dr. Alok Kumar: Ancient Hindu Science
Dr. Alok Kumar is a distinguished professor of physics at the State University of New York (SUNY), Oswego. He has authored and coauthored four books, including "Ancient Hindu Science: Its Transmission and Impact on World Cultures".

Feb 11, 2022 • 2h 40min
#9 - Dr. Subhash Kak: Vedanta, Computer Science, AI, Yoga, Consciousness
Dr. Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist, theoretical physicist, historian, Indologist, Vedic scholar, linguist, philosopher, and poet. He is Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Dr. Kak's scientific research has spanned the fields of information theory, cryptography, neural networks, quantum information, and theoretical physics.
He is one of the pioneers of quantum learning. He coined the term "quantum neural computing" which is a theory of consciousness that is partly classical and partly quantum.
He has authored and co-authored at least 20 books on a variety of topics.
In 2019, Dr. Kak was awarded the Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, for his immense contributions in multiple areas of expertise.

Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 41min
#8 - Aneesh Gokhale: History of the Maratha Empire
Aneesh Gokhale is a historian and author of books such as "Bramhaputra - The story of Lachit Barphukan", "Sahyadris to Hindukush - The Maratha conquest of Lahore and Attock", and "Battles of the Maratha Empire".


