#AskAbhijit 378: Nepal Flood, China, BRICS, Superbugs, Newton, Russia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ISRO

Episode 378 of the #AskAbhijit show: Ask me your best questions in the Live Chat and Super Chat, and I shall answer them. - - - - - - - - - - - - My eBooks: 1. Dark Stars to Black Holes: The 250-Year Journey from Impossible Idea to Nobel Prize (The Black Hole Chronicles Book 1) Link: https://www.amazon.in/Dark-Stars-Blac... 2. The Happiest Thought: How Einstein’s Daydream About Falling Became the Path to Black Holes (The Black Hole Chronicles Book 2) Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0FQPN9WX3/ 3. The Chandrasekhar Limit: How A Young Physicist’s Discovery Was Buried for Fifty Years – and Changed the Universe (The Black Hole Chronicles Book 3) Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0FQPN9WX3/ 4. Borrowed Time (Mirrors of Maya Book 1) Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0FQ21VT89/ 5. The Eye of Kubera (Mirrors of Maya Book 2) Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0FVHHXY2H/ - - - - - - - - - - - - OUTLINE: 0:00 Opening 1:17 Welcome to Episode 378 5:53 Why I never counter guests 8:06 Japan and Korea under occupation 8:58 Nuclear only on America's terms 10:22 Admitting I can be wrong 12:11 Turkish Chinese airlift into Pakistan 13:46 What cargo did they carry 14:26 Why Washington permits this 16:10 Strategic autonomy or Western alignment 18:16 America's containment strategy explained 19:00 Recreating the two Pakistan scenario 19:26 An Islamic NATO forming 20:43 India stands completely alone 21:48 How does light know 22:09 Ripples across a pond 24:12 Destructive interference chooses the path 25:03 If Chicxulub struck the Pacific 26:05 Destruction would be identical anywhere 27:28 Could Nepal's disaster be averted 27:47 CCTV footage points to Tibet 28:41 Chinese construction across the Himalayas 30:03 China withholds crucial water data 31:35 Read up on unrestricted warfare 32:11 Bangladesh buys Chinese fighters 33:26 Just build your own muscle 33:54 Richard the Lionheart's real story 34:56 Saladin and unreachable Jerusalem 35:31 Captured, ransomed, killed pointlessly 37:22 Thoughts on the BRICS summit 39:23 BRICS lacks trust and cohesion 40:16 Turning plant signals into music 41:43 Ethnobotany and the lost Soma 43:05 India's SMART submarine killer 44:59 What the delimitation bill misses 46:47 ISRO is not a priority 47:31 Chandrayaan 4 sample return 49:07 Technology demos, not real science 50:10 Nepal floods natural or manmade 52:17 Buryats are Mongolic people 54:09 Could America have civil war 55:30 Doval, Zhang Youxia and timelines 57:31 That flood was manmade 57:56 Ashoka versus the Guptas 59:50 The Gupta cultural flowering 1:01:02 Why Native Americans look Asian 1:03:01 Russia's eastward imperial expansion 1:04:52 The black hole star 1:07:31 Evidence from cosmic dawn 1:09:15 Varna, jati and social stability 1:10:48 Caste is a European import 1:11:23 The Criminal Tribes Act 1:13:41 Debunking the Aryan invasion theory 1:15:22 Dictatorship without a civil war 1:16:36 Is China behind Nepal's floods 1:19:09 Why civilizations act uncivilised 1:21:05 Poverty is the root cause 1:21:31 A colonial system never dismantled 1:22:08 Odyssey and Ramayana parallels 1:23:11 Britain destroyed a Hindu empire 1:24:43 Why Bose never confronted Gandhi 1:27:48 Single crystal turbine blades 1:30:13 A hypothetical third superpower 1:31:00 Paper GDP versus steel GDP 1:33:32 Machine tools make everything else 1:35:32 Enantiomers and biological homochirality 1:39:09 What blocks India's military rise 1:39:41 Education kept rotten deliberately 1:42:04 Thirty years, zero breakthroughs 1:43:36 Why good decisions stay unpopular 1:44:33 Freebies versus building industry 1:46:06 Learning urban landscaping properly 1:48:27 Why electrons move, not protons 1:50:05 MH370 and Chagos islands 1:51:29 If the Bhakra dam broke 1:55:07 Autosomal DNA and haplogroups 1:58:22 Why I quit chess 1:59:13 Origins of the Pala Empire 2:00:26 Size of the observable universe 2:01:26 How important were the Rajputs 2:03:38 Is quantum espionage possible 2:05:53 Confluidics against superbugs 2:07:37 Canada's untapped economic potential 2:08:49 Can sanctions destroy a country 2:10:46 Newton believed in God 2:14:32 Why India lags in R&D 2:16:00 Radio waves versus visible light 2:19:28 The fertile crescent became desert 2:20:38 Advice for electronics startups 2:24:40 Have we lost LLMs 2:27:56 Nepal helped while Assam waits 2:29:53 Nehru, Tibet and Brahmaputra 2:30:27 The Indosphere India abandoned 2:32:10 India can outmanufacture China 2:34:10 Nepal refused foreign rescue teams 2:37:10 Glue you switch off 2:38:04 Cash flow is the lifeblood 2:39:51 What kind of victory 2:41:44 Making our civilization cool 2:42:46 Closing thoughts - - - - - - - - - - - - Support The Channel: ►UPI (G-Pay/PhonePe/Paytm): abhijitchavda@icici ►PayPal: https://paypal.me/AbhijitChavda