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Neerja Chowdhury is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and political commentator. In the course of a distinguished career of over forty years, she was political editor of the Indian Express for ten years and covered the terms of eight prime ministers and ten Lok Sabha elections. She has won several prestigious awards for her journalism including the first Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons (1981), the India Today – PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award (1983), and the Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting (2009–10). 0:00 Intro 0:51 Sonia wants Rahul from Raebareli 4:42 Amethi Vs Raebareli symbolism 5:47 Sanjay Gandhi & Amethi 7:51 Gandhis, Md Yunus, Raebareli & Ronald Reagan 9:54 Motu fielded from Raebareli 11:19 Old Monk, RSS & Gandhis 13:33 Gandhi Vs Gandhi in Amethi, Raebareli? 17:52 Varun Gandhi making a big mistake? 19:41 Raebareli’s Dalit factor 21:21 When Priyanka Vadra defeated Arun Nehru 22:25 Smriti Irani, Amethi & Rahul Gandhi 23:09 Akhilesh Yadav, Varun Gandhi & Pilibhit 23:42 Priyanka’s offer to Varun Gandhi 26:02 Congress offered Amethi ticket to Varun Gandhi? 28:11 Indira Gandhi, PN Haksar & Raebareli 30:52 Indira, Raebareli & Raj Narain 36:09 Gandhi Vs Gandhi in 1984, 1989 LS 38:21 Rajiv Gandhi, VP Singh relationship 39:49 Rajiv, Amitabh Bacchan & VP Singh 43:50 Sonia Vs PV Narasimha Rao from Amethi 45:41 PV Narasimha Rao on Gandhi dynasty 47:41 Future of Gandhis in Amethi, Raebareli

Dilip Mandal, a seasoned journalist, has worked with various media outlets for over two decades. He began his career in print journalism with leading newspapers like 'Dainik Jagran' and 'India Today', later transitioning to television channels such as 'Aaj Tak' and 'Zee News'. Additionally, he has experience in the corporate world through his roles at CNBC Awaaz and Economic Times Dot Com. Mandal is also a respected author, educator, and has been recognized for his contributions to journalism. 0:00 Intro 1:06 Context matters 2:43 Why Modi is attacking Congress 5:07 Why Congress’ Muslim appeasement went out of control 8:30 Ambedkar Vs Congress 9:27 Congress’ package for Muslims 10:20 Privilege of Muslim elites 11:43 Congress evil plan for Muslim reservations 14:04 Big lie of Sachar commission on Muslims & Dalits 15:15 Only Congress has ended reservations! 20:58 Sachar tried to give reservations to SC converts 23:31 Congress’ real politics against SP, BSP, RJD, DMK 27:23 If OBCs can, why not Muslims? 31:58 Congress’ put Muslims above Dalits 35:25 Muslim-First is India’s official govt policy 38:02 Congress plan to give Muslims protection under SC/ST act 40:13 Height of appeasement - pro Muslim education policies 43:23 Why Indian Muslims are poor - real reasons 47:49 Problem with Indian Muslims’ attitudes 50:16 Yogi Adityanath & UP Muslims 54:12 Communal budgeting in secular schemes 56:17 Modi will change constitution & end reservations? 58:05 Modi is best brand ambassador of Indian democracy 1:00:50 Modi is uneducated. PM should be padha likha? 1:03:46 Modi deserves Nobel Prize for Toilets 1:06:43 Congress won’t do Muslim appeasement again? 1:08:01 Why wealth redistribution doesn’t work 1:10:00 India is not a land of revolutions 1:11:30 Importance of Private property 1:13:36 Joke on Communism 😀 1:14:30 Muslims first in Pakistan, Muslims first in India also? 1:17:08 Lohia, Muslims & Savarkar 1:19:01 Don’t follow what elites say but what they do

Ravindra Singh Bhati is a 26 year old young Indian politician currently serving as a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Sheo Assembly constituency. He served as the President of Jai Narain Vyas University (JNVU) Student Union from 2019-2022. He is currently contesting as an Independent candidate from the Barmer-Jaisalmer Lok Sabha constituency.

Neerja Chowdhury is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and political commentator. In the course of a distinguished career of over forty years, she was political editor of the Indian Express for ten years and covered the terms of eight prime ministers and ten Lok Sabha elections. She has won several prestigious awards for her journalism including the first Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons (1981), the India Today–PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award (1983), and the Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting (2009–10). She is contributing editor, the Indian Express, and her weekly column, The Neerja Chowdhury Column, is widely followed by participants and observers of contemporary Indian politics.

Nityānanda Miśra is a Sanskrit scholar and an author based in Mumbai. He works in the investment banking industry. He has edited and authored 9 books in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English. Born in Lucknow, Misra is an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Randeep Hooda is an Indian actor, writer, producer, director and national medal winner equestrian, known for his work predominantly in Hindi cinema and few English films.

Aabhas Maldahiyar, an Architect and Urban-Designer, amalgamates an intense love for History with captivating storytelling. Initially embracing Marxism in architecture school, a visit to Ajanta’s caves ignited a profound transformation. Shifting from Marxist literature to crafting fiction inspired by the Red Ideology, he delved deeper into the realms of History and Politics. Babur: The Chessboard King stands as the inaugural volume in his forthcoming series on ‘Timurid Gurkaniyan’ (erroneously known as Mughals), founded on primary sources. A skilled reader of Persian manuscripts, Aabhas offers a distinctive lens to historical narratives.

Pavneet Singh is an author and teacher at Tmentors UPSC platform. He teaches aspirants for Indian Civil Services Examination. His YouTube channel is called SpyGamesPavneet.

Ajay Bisaria joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1987 and, in a career spanning thirty-five years, dealt with some of India's key economic and security relationships. He served as Indian high commissioner to Pakistan from 2017 to 2020. He has been Indian high commissioner to Canada (2020-22), and India's ambassador to Poland and Lithuania (2015-17). He has also represented the country at the World Bank in Washington DC and in embassies in Berlin and Moscow. He has served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, Department of Commerce, and the Prime Minister's Office, where he was a key aide to Prime Minister Vajpayee from 1999 to 2004. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi University, an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Priyank Chauhan is a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He is founder of JNU IR society and Savarkar-Ambedkar Study Circle.

Dr. Manish Pandit is a physician who lives in the United Kingdom. He arrived in England in the mid 1990’s and trained as a surgeon (FRCS General Surgery and FRCS ENT) before switching career streams to Nuclear Medicine and obtaining a Masters with a Merit from Kings College in the process. He is an alumnus of BJ Medical College in Pune. He has published on many research topics within the fields of medicine and is a senior tutor for medical students in England as well as regional director for training in his medical speciality. Dr Manish has had an active interest in Indian history and spirituality since he was 21 years old, which is also when he met his Guru, Nakhate Maharaj. However he considers that spirituality (and alignment with so called dharma) is mostly useless unless closely moving with humanity and compassion on the ground in real life. It is easy for those who have not been miserable in life and not been engaged in the service of others for decades to be dismissive of any other sentient being’s troubles as mere “thought” or “nonsense”. Medicine provides him that impetus as nothing moves humans more than the sight of others suffering. He maintains an extensive personal library of books on Indology. He has studied the dating of the Mahabharata sufficiently enough to be considered as an expert on dating the Mahabharata using ancient Indian astronomy and is considered as a student of Dr Narahari Achar (a physics professor from Memphis who dated the Mahabharata to 3067 BCE). He is also a director, scriptwriter and cinematographer, who is known for making films on topics which very few within the broadcast and non-broadcast media like to touch. He has made several films including the acclaimed Krishna: History or Myth, Mumbai: Pani Mafia, SaiBaba: An Indian Jesus, Bharat ek Chetna and perhaps his best known film “The Ishrat Jahan Conspiracy (2014)”. His films can be divided into two principal categories, those which pertain to religion and those which pertain to politics. Apart from his feature length documentaries, he also makes short films which can be seen on saraswatifilms.org.

Dr Prasanna Tantri is an Associate Professor in the Finance area and Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at ISB. His research areas include- banking, financial inclusion, financial contagion, regulation, and the relationship between politics and finance. He teaches a course on Indian financial systems.

An alumnus of IIMB’s prestigious doctoral program specializing in Corporate Strategy & Policy, Dr. Samir Kagalkar's education career has 24 years of experience spanning across Business, Society & Government domains. He has a BA in Economics from National College Basavanagudi, Bengaluru and an MA in Economics from the prestigious Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, Pune. This was capped later on with a PhD from IIMB (Corporate strategy & Policy). He has served in the Modi Govt (2016-2018) as Additional PS to Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers. In specific, he worked closely on the Jan Aushadhi program, helping it scale massively. Currently he heads the Economic Cell of BJP Karnataka as its State Convener since 2020. His other past engagements include: Heading Corporate Affairs at Ola, Director of MIT SOG, Pune – mentored by TN Seshan, (Political leadership school), Chief Academic officer at Avagmah, an investee firm of Infosys’ Kris Gopalakrishnan, Banking Executive at HSBC, India. He consults to various corporates on Public Policy & Corporate Strategy.

Vipul Amrutlal Shah's directorial debut was Aankhen, which was one of the five biggest hits of 2002. He then impressed the audience and critics in his next film Waqt: The Race Against Time, which was again one of the highest-grossing films of 2005. His next two films, Namastey London and Singh Is Kinng did very well at the box office with the latter breaking all previous opening records in Bollywood. He is also a producer of movies like Force, Commando, Holiday and The Kerala Story. His latest 'Bastar: The Naxal Story' released on 15th March 2024. He is married to actress Shefali Shah.

#makeinindia #narendramodi #dholerasmartcity Arun Mampazhy has a BTech from IITM and MS from University of Maryland in semiconductor fabrication and over a decade of industry experience. His dreams of seeing a commercial fab takeoff in India has changed from black and white to colour over two decades. He can be reached via email nanoarun@gmail.com or @nano_arun on X. Views expressed are personal.

Ajay Bisaria is a commentator on international affairs and a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1987 and, in a career spanning thirty-five years, dealt with some of India's key economic and security relationships. He served as Indian high commissioner to Pakistan from 2017 to 2020. He has been Indian high commissioner to Canada (2020-22), and India's ambassador to Poland and Lithuania (2015-17). He has also represented the country at the World Bank in Washington DC and in embassies in Berlin and Moscow. He has served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, Department of Commerce, and the Prime Minister's Office, where he was a key aide to Prime Minister Vajpayee from 1999 to 2004. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi University, an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Ajay Bisaria's book 'Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan' is out. Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/Anger-Management-Troubled-Diplomatic-Relationship/dp/9393852758

Since 1999, Vikas Manhas has been visiting families of soldiers of the #indianarmy who have given ultimate sacrifice for the nation. Every year, he devotes a significant amount of time traveling across the country and visiting and revisiting the families of our immortals. He has visited over 500 families of so far and built long lasting familial relationships with them.

Shashank Mani Tripathi is the founder of the Jagriti Yatra, an annual fifteen-day train journey, the world's largest entrepreneurial one, to the four corners of India in the company of 500 young leaders. With a B. Tech from IIT Delhi, and an MBA from IMD Lausanne Shashank has worked in both corporate and government sectors as a strategist and visionary, serving on the $5 Trillion committee of the commerce ministry. A ghumakkad at heart and a public man of action by temperament, he has circled India fifteen times on the Jagriti Yatra, energizing 7,500 leaders in the process. Shashank lives and works in his ancestral village Barpar in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He is developing his region through Udyamita, a definition of enterprise aimed at invigorating local economy and society.

O.P. Singh, an IPS officer from the 1983 batch, served as Director General of Police (DGP) of India's largest police force, Uttar Pradesh Police, from 2018 to 2020. He served as the Director General of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from 2014 to 2016. During his tenure, the NDRF conducted several search and rescue operations in response to natural disasters in India and Nepal, notably during the Nepal earthquake in April 2015. Singh has also held positions in the Special Protection Group, responsible for the Prime Minister's security, and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), dealing with internal security. He was the Additional Director General (Airport Sector) in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), overseeing security at 59 airports and vital installations. His efforts in managing the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and resolving disputes between Shia and Sunni communities in Lucknow were recognized by the Uttar Pradesh Government. His awards include the Indian Police Medal for Gallantry, Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service, Police Special Duty Medal, Disaster Response Medal, President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service, and the Distinguished Leadership Award for Disaster Resilience by the All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties & Social Justice in 2015. His latest book 'Crime, Grime and Gumption: Case files of an IPS officer' is now out. Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/Crime-Grime-Gumption-Files-Officer/dp/0143464167

Shweta Singh Kirti, a fashion designer trained at India’s National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), transformed her career trajectory after obtaining an MBA in the USA. Her fusion of business acumen and spirituality birthed into a passion project called Damara Kids, an online mindfulness programme for children. Here, she imparts mindfulness and meditation techniques, fostering focus, concentration and self-mastery, empowering them to unleash their potential. Beyond her role with Damara Kids, Shweta is deeply involved in several non-profit initiatives and has served on the board of OMniAwareness. As a public figure with a substantial following, she serves as an inspiration to many, standing as a thought leader in the realms of holistic well-being and spiritual enlightenment. Following the tragic loss of her brother, Sushant Singh Rajput, she embarked on several months of extensive solitary retreats. This profound and transformative experience gave birth to her first book, Pain: A Portal to Enlightenment. Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/Pain-Enlightenment-Shweta-Singh-Kirti/dp/0143461362#:~:text=what%20was...-,In%20the%20book%20%22Pain%3A%20A%20Portal%20to%20Enlightenment%22%20by,inspiring%20and%20remarkable%20was%20the 0:00 Promo 3:35 When Shweta got to know about SSR’s death 8:04 When you don’t get to say your goodbyes 10:00 Childhood memories with Sushant 15:03 Something was troubling Sushant 18:43 Public & media trial 20:51 Family has still not got closure 23:07 Big hope from CBI & a request 25:59 How Shweta dealt with her pain 31:21 Sushant’s family has faced a lot of pain 34:15 Was Sushant spiritual? 38:20 Bollywood’s shallowness & Sushant 40:26 Why there is so much anxiety today 41:53 First Samadhi Experience 49:30 Spirituality & Science 53:47 The Vedanta Way 57:20 Importance of Deep Sleep 58:13 No bigger intoxicant than spirituality 1:01:20 Investigating awareness 1:07:41 If everything is moh maaya, what’s the point 1:10:18 Without pain, no enlightenment? 1:11:25 Transcending duality 1:15:31 Message to Sushant’s fans