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Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan

Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan

An Indian/Hindu nationalist perspective on world affairs; as well as on technology and innovation; conversations with experts and with people just like you and me. rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

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Ep. 30: How western '#datajournalism' on #wuhanvirus...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/05/03

I think western media has been less than honest in its ‘data analysis’ of Wuhan virus cases and deaths in India. One newspaper said the numbers were an undercount by 30x. Several others have confidently assumed similar large undercounts. After all, India must be hiding the true numbers — for what exactly, they didn’t say. I tried to understand how they concluded this, just as they confidently said there were ‘250 million “farmers” protesting’, ‘the largest protest ever in the world’, etc, when the

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Ep. 29: How to use #Wuhanvirus for world domination,...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/28

There are three plausible reasons for the Biden Administration’s tone-deaf reaction to India’s humanitarian crisis in the #Wuhanvirus vaccine imbroglio:* malign neglect* a woke agenda* a monstrous conspiracy.As someone who lived half his adult life in the US, I have fond memories of the people and the country, and I have long been an advocate of closer India-US ties. The two are Estranged Democracies that share common values. I found the American reaction startling because of:a) the optics regarding

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Ep. 28: Dr Naras Eechambadi on innovative marketing...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/27

From the transcript:Today for Episode 28, I’m delighted to have with me Dr Naras Eechambadi, who’s an expert in the use of data science and analytics to drive marketing. This is relevant because the majority of startups fail not because of poor or inappropriate technology but lack of innovative and creative marketing. But Naras’ personal journey through management consulting and the two startups he founded, grew and exited honorably from, is also very interesting. Let me quickly go through his bio:

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Ep. 27: Dr K V Bapa Rao on President Biden and...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/26

Dr K V Bapa Rao from Los Angeles and I discuss the current situation in India-US relations. Excerpt from the transcript: We have had a little time to explore what the Biden presidency means in practice for India and more broadly for Asia, in the last few weeks. I don’t know about you, but I am severely underwhelmed, because I see the US blowing hot and cold towards India, while it is being sandbagged and humiliated by China, for instance in the Alaska encounter. As a life-long supporter of an

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8:29

Ep. 26: The ‘stunning’ reaction to #India’s...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/23

The late Christopher Hitchens once wrote a book titled “The Ghoul of Calcutta”: it was about those profiting from deaths in that city. I looked up the term, and it means a monstrous being associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh. I was struck by how appropriate that term was when I saw the following tweet. Note the use of the term ‘stunning’. It implies that the pain of hundreds of families of the dead is a spectator sport for this woman, a former WaPo reporter in India. Isn’t that the

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25:49

Ep. 25: Linking Cities: human scale, back to the past?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/19

For the last few years, the idea that “Smart Cities” were the inevitable next stage in the evolution of urban spaces has been the consensus among policy buffs. It stands to reason: city-based clusters are where creativity and innovation have always flourished, because of the collision and co-operation between diverse viewpoints and diverse backgrounds of densely-packed residents. In fact, chance meetings of people with different interests (sometimes called water-cooler conversations) were encouraged

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47:52

Ep. 24: Dr Uday Balakrishnan on what ails Governance...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/10

A wide-ranging chat with Dr Uday Balakrishnan (retired from the Indian Postal Service as a Member of its Board), currently teaching governance at IISc Bangalore, who has seen the beast from the inside, warts and all. We discuss:Can the bureaucracy be reformed? What are its biggest problems and sins? Is it attitude, perhaps unchanged from James Mill’s time, ie 1817? Is it the way they are recruited and trained? Does the problem lie in the way there’s a brutal hierarchy in place where lesser babus are

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Episode 23: AI 2.0 and the coming language wars

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/06

podcast abovea version is published at https://chintan.indiafoundation.in/articles/artificial-intelligence-2-0-the-language-wars-are-coming/There have been major technological breakthroughs recently, such as CRISPR-cas9 in gene-editing, AlphaFold2 in protein-folding, and the spread of blockchains and cryptocurrency. But it’s a fair bet that natural language processing via AI and Deep Learning will have the most impact on the most people. For, advances like GPT neural networks mean that machines can

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Episode 22: Kerala, the BJP's final frontier

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/04/01

It hit 41.5 degrees Celsius in Palakkad this week. In the blistering heat, there is an 89-year old man campaigning for the post of MLA from this storied town that sits in a gap in the Western Ghats between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He is the legendary Dr Elattuvalappil Sreedharan, India’s most accomplished engineer.At his age, he has no need to prove anything to anybody. He has been awarded India’s second-highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, as well as the French Legion d’Honneur. I have

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Episode 21: Suez, De-Globalization, and a...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/29

The most vivid analogy for the latest crisis in global supply chains, the Suez Canal blocking by a grounded super-container ship, is that of a heart attack. Just as a block in an artery can lead to disastrous consequences for a human, the blockage of an arterial waterway can disrupt global trade. The Suez accounts for 12% of the world’s total cargo movement because it is a key transit route between Asia and Europe.There are ways to mitigate, and, even better, to prevent heart attacks. It is

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Episode 20: Britain's Daughters: are women safe there?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/24

Due to widespread Anglophilia, there is a benign image of Britain with memes like “the sceptr’d isle”, “home of Shakespeare, the Knights of the Round Table”, “Oh, to be in England now that spring is in the air!”, the Battle of Britain” and so on. But is the reality a little different? The experiences of three women there recently suggest that something is not right. Racism, bigotry, and vicious intolerance against women are common, especially if they are non-white. The three are Rashmi Samant, a

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Episode 19: The tragic(?) defenestration of Pratap...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/22

Did Pratap Bhanu Mehta jump from Ashoka University? Or was he pushed? This seems to be the Hamlet-esque “to-be-or-not-to-be” question of the day in the Indian media. The simple answer is that it is very good if he was pushed. And it’s even better if he jumped.That of course needs an explanation. The push option is if the Government of India made an offer to the trustees of Ashoka that they couldn’t refuse: get rid of the fellow, or else! That, of course, would be Godfather-esque, and it would mark a

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Episode 18: #BigPharma Vaccine imperialism? IPR...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/18

Vaccine diplomacy has brought out the best and the worst. There are the usual small-minded intellectual property battles, which really do not show #BigPharma in a good light. See my piece on Chintan here: https://chintan.indiafoundation.in/articles/why-india-should-rely-on-its-domestically-produced-vaccines/ and its podcast version is above. The US is reputedly hoarding 30 million doses of AstraZeneca (which is not approved for distribution in the US yet), and the UK is complaining that India is not

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Episode 17: Why is the West attacking India?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/17

There is a vicious, long-term Plan for us. Every day we see instances of this in action. Here’s what they did to use before when they had power. Now things are no better. We have to heed the lessons of the past. https://www.indiafacts.org.in/commentary/the-withering-attack-on-us-they-have-good-reasons-why-they-wish-us-harm/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

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Episode 16: Is India reining in #BigTech/#socialmedia?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/03/05

Social media was once viewed as a breath of fresh air, with independent citizen-journalists providing unbiased content. Alas, those days are over. Today, social media is a powerful #BigTech force for thought control, and as such, it needs to be reined in. The GoI’s proposals in this regard are modest, and entirely reasonable.See a version of this podcast in print at https://chintan.indiafoundation.in/articles/the-international-push-to-make-social-media-accountable/ This is a public episode. If you

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Ep. 15: It's a kulak revolt, not a farmer protest

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/02/11

The article is available at https://www.pgurus.com/the-lament-of-the-kulaks/The positioning of the ongoing agitation, mostly in Punjab and Haryana, has been brilliant. Full marks for marketing, because we are programmed to be sentimental towards annadaatas. Food, after all, is pretty elemental. Farmers everywhere are a dour lot, prone to being glum -- often with justification -- about bad weather, subsidies and the antics of politicians.But the sad fact of the matter is that this particular

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Episode 14: Just weeks into the Biden presidency, how...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/02/10

Of course it’s too soon to make any authoritative pronouncements about the effect of the Biden presidency, but the first signs for Asia are none too good. There were anodyne noises about Asia from Biden though he seems allergic to the term ‘Indo-Pacific’, but the memory of Obama’s feckless “pivot to Asia” is emboldening China. To be succinct, China is rampaging, and having a field day. It cannot hide its disdain for Biden. The first thing China did, on the very day that Biden took over, was to

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9:43

did china weaponize a glacier against india?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/02/08

i said india-china border. pardon me, i meant “india-tibet” border. and quite honestly, i am not a big fan of sun-tzu.but there is the very interesting manual of warfare, “Unrestricted warfare” that is more or less what they follow: use all sorts of leverage; wage economic, cyber, biological, chemical, warfare; use strategic resource capture (eg lithium); use tons of fifth columnists and embedded assets to cause mayhem. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other

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6:46

how to build a #narrative: marvel and learn from the...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/02/08

first there was kishore mehbubani, an indian-origin singaporean diplomat, long known as a chinese shill. https://www.nus.edu.sg/alumnet/thealumnus/issue-124/perspectives/panorama/biden-and-china-friends-or-foesthen there was kevin rudd, a solid sinophile former aus PM saying “resistance is futile” and that you MUSTN’T contain china. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-05/kevin-rudd-usa-chinese-confrontation-short-of-war#author-infothen the FT’s martin wolf told us you

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on the rihanna mia greta circus which is in fact far...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2021/02/06

something i recorded but forgot to upload. oh, i also forgot about mia khalifa’s glasses. that’s also her trademark, apart from the gigantic mammaries. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

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