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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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16:13

Ep. 142: The implications of a Harris Presidency for...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/10/23

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-the-implications-of-a-kamala-harris-presidency-for-india-13828576.htmlHere’s an AI-generated podcast based on this essay (courtesy Google’s NotebookLM): always entertaining and appealing. Full disclosure: Parts of this essay were written by AI, and edited.The entire sorry spat with the Canadians, the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and a virtual breakdown of ties leads to a good question

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14:32

Ep. 141: Narrative building on Canada by Five Eyes,...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/10/17

The podcast above was made by the Google Gemini AI via notebookLM.A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-narrative-building-of-west-and-the-threat-of-regime-change-13827231.htmlWhile we can all laugh at the absurdities mouthed by Justin Trudeau in his crusade against India and Hindus, there are meta-questions that really beg for an answer: what the heck is going on? Who is behind all this? Why now? What other precedents do we look

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6:03

Ep. 140: Bharatiya Knowledge Systems can benefit from...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/10/03

I wrote a note in January regarding BKS (which I will not post because of some sensitive information), and here I share a summary, created by Google Gemini NotebookLM. SummaryRajeev Srinivasan argues that India can use technology to advance its traditional knowledge systems (BKS). He proposes developing a "BharatLLM" – a large language model trained on Indian texts – to preserve Bharatiya concepts and create a "Splinternet" of domain-specific text repositories. This would allow for machine

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36:10

Ep. 138: Re-post of three articles from 2003, 2008,...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/09/17

First, in 2003, exhorting India to be a hard state. i wrote this 20 years ago about why India needs to be #hardstate. coercion, carrots, covert action and containment: the principles remain relevant even though the dramatis personae are different. https://www.rediff.com/news/2003/feb/21rajeev.htmSecond, in 2008, the fear that India would be a failed state. I wrote this just after the invasion of Mumbai on 26/11/2008.

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30:14

Ep. 137: Dr Abhishek Puri on the Telegram fiasco as...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/09/08

Dr Puri is a Telegram enthusiast (and a tech maven in general, despite his day job as a radiation oncologist), so he is particularly concerned about the full-court press against the app recently: its founder was arrested in France, its antecedents were questioned, its business model (which includes its own cryptocurrency, and also a million paying subscribers) was mocked, and there was a suggestion that it was nurturing crooks, criminals, child pornographers, human traffickers, etc. There are some

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5:43

Ep. 136: The Case for Censorship: Disinformation...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/09/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.comNote: Free subscribers can preview this podcast by clicking above. It is truncated; the full podcast is for paid subscribers. Please upgrade to a paid subscription if you can because that will help pay my bills. A good bit of my writing/podcasts will continue to be free, but some podcasts especially with guests will be only for paid subscribers. This is…

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27:11

Ep. 135: Narayanan Komerath on the possible Chinese...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/09/04

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PODCAST IS AVAILABLE TO FREE SUBSCRIBERS. BUT FUTURE PODCASTS IN THEIR ENTIRETY WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO PAID SUBSCRIBERS. Only truncated versions will be available to free subscribers.Kindly upgrade to a paid subscription to Shadow Warrior to enjoy the full content here. Experts like Dr. Narayanan Komerath will regularly offer their insightful views on this Substack. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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18:34

Ep. 134: The geo-political fallout from Bangladesh:...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/09/01

The Dr B S Harishankar Memorial Lecture, Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, Trivandrum, 27th August 2024.A Malayalam version of this has been published by Janmabhumi newspaper at https://janmabhumi.in/2024/09/01/3258051/varadyam/geo-political-implications-for-bangladesh/It was startling to hear from retired Ambassador G Sankar Iyer on Asianet’s program with Ambassador TP Sreenivasan that the celebrated Malayalam author Vaikom Mohammed Basheer (once nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature) said in 1973:

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Ep. 132: The ongoing tragedy of Wayanad and the...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/08/25

A version of this essay has been published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/climate-tragedy-of-wayanad-and-the-vulnerability-of-western-ghats-13808331.htmlAfter days of intense coverage of the landslides in Wayanad, the news cycle has moved on to other calamities. But the problems remain, and things cannot be left to benign neglect as is usually the case. For example there was a strange thundering noise from deep underground that alarmed people in the area. This is ominous, as

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Ep. 133: Rape and humiliation as weapons against...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/08/21

A version of this essay was published by news18.com at https://www.news18.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-beyond-lenient-laws-what-will-it-take-to-protect-indias-women-9023844.htmlAfter this fortnight, it is not hard to see why some are demanding speedy punishment, including automatic death sentences for severe crimes against women. To put it bluntly, the Indian State is letting rapists and murderers get away with their crimes against both grown women, and especially tragically, against little girls

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12:07

Ep. 121: generative AI creates challenges in...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2024/01/11

It is fairly obvious that the dominant, i.e. Western mechanism for generating new knowledge is rather different from the traditional Indian mechanism, and this shows up in all sorts of ways. One is that Indian epistemology seems to be empirical and practical, based on observation; whereas the Western tradition seems to prefer grand theories that must then be proved by observation.Another difference is the Western idea that Intellectual Property is a private right that the State confers on an

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12:41

Ep. 119: The impact on India of the Israel-Hamas war...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/10/17

A version of this essay was published by rediff.com at https://www.rediff.com/news/column/rajeev-srinivasan-hamas-war-is-an-immediate-setback-to-india/20231017.htmIt can be argued on several grounds that the 2023 Israel-Hamas war is a point of inflection indicating the general eclipse of the West, and in fact I have done so in an essay. What is unclear is how the end of this era will play out in the medium term and the long term. The best analogy I can think of is the assassination of Archduke

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9:18

Ep. 118: Does the war in Israel mark the end of Pax...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/10/11

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-does-the-war-in-israel-mark-the-end-of-pax-occidentalis-13235762.htmlThe attack by Hamas on Israel may well be remembered in future as marking the very moment the decline of the West became an indubitable fact. Thus October 7th, 2023 may be a point of inflection in geo-politics and geo-economics, although it is true that the economic center of gravity of the world has been moving eastwards (and

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9:53

Ep. 116: G20 and its fallout: India the swing state,...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/09/21

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-g20-and-its-fallout-india-the-swing-state-imec-and-trudeaus-tantrums-13162212.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialA fortnight after the end of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, it’s worth revisiting what really materialized, and what India can expect out of all the hard work that went into it.First, the positives. The flawless execution of the Summit is something the Indian leadership and

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Ep. 115: Apartheid against Hindus in the so-called...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/09/08

On the one hand, there is massive propaganda from the west, ably supported by native sepoys, that India is on the verge of some genocide of Muslims. On the other hand, last month, the Speaker of the Kerala Assembly, a Muslim, said that Lord Ganesh was “a myth”. Instead of censuring him for hurting the sentiments of Hindus, the ruling communists of Kerala supported him.This month, Udayanidhi Stalin, a minister, who is also the son of the DMK Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M K Stalin, said Sanatana

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Ep. 113: Udayanidhi Stalin has called for genocide...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/09/06

* It’s illegal. There is a constitutional right to worship. Even more so there is a right to equality to all citizens. * It’s immoral and criminal. To call for genocide. This is not free speech. This is hate speech* This is pure propaganda* Demonizing the enemy has a long history* Spaniards called aztecs cannibals and vice versa, but white people got to write the history books* Yellow peril* Nazis called jews vermin* Hutus in rwanda called tutsis cockroaches, and then genocide them* N s rajarams’s

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Ep. 110: What a difference 10 years make!

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/08/30

A version of this essay was published by news18.com at https://www.news18.com/opinion/opinion-what-a-difference-ten-years-make-india-since-2014-8559632.htmlI wrote ten years ago on Rediff.com (‘The great Indian rope trick and other illusions of progress’ https://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-great-indian-rope-trick-and-other-illusions-of-progress/20130716.htm) about how the average Indian is satisfied with illusion, never mind real progress. That made India a Potemkin State, where form is

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Ep. 109: George T speaks about German/EU views on...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/08/18

Here’s the video: 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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Ep. 107: Paris is burning. Why?

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/07/07

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-paris-is-burning-why-12837712.htmlI had the disconcerting experience of being on the ground in Paris while the current riots raged. Oddly enough, on my previous visit, in April 2019, I arrived the night the Notre Dame cathedral caught fire, and then was in town during the Yellow Vest riots against fuel taxes. In both cases, my plans were affected: in the current case I stirred out of my hotel

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Ep. 106: Permanent interests, not permanent friends,...

Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan ·

2023/07/05

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-permanent-interests-not-permanent-friends-drive-foreign-policy-12814872.htmlThe optics for PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US were good. There was a surprisingly positive reception to his speech to the joint houses of the US Parliament (known as the US Congress, not to be confused with the Indian political party with its congenital allergy to Modi). I read that the PM gave a bravura

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