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Ruchir Sharma is an award-winning public policy and political advocacy professional with experience in police reform, counterterrorism, and climate change at the intergovernmental level and campaign strategy at the party-level.With an academic background in Marxist theory, the history of terrorism, and Cold War geopolitics, he has also worked as an advisor to a major political party and in recent years, he has been making waves with his piercing articles on history, culture, and international politics, in the Huffington Post, Firstpost, Swarajya, and Russia Insider.Time Stamps:00:00 - Intro, Ideology vs False Narrative, The Failure of Indian Education05:36 - How is the Indian situation unique?09:00 - How far is the first world wealth level for India?13:48 - Does a Unified Political Will not exist in India due to Diversity?15:45 - What is this 1940s idea of India? Did India move past it in the 2014 elections?20:53 - The real BJP, their purpose and decolonization attempt27:20 - Are our narratives trying to keep us unplugged from reality?34:59 - How do we move forward with these narratives?38:50 - Where and how did Ruchir Sharma learn his tools?42:50 - How did Indian History evolve? Expansionist Nationalism vs Local nationalism50:00 - Disillusionment in History and ideologies, and switching ideologies55:59 - Was Jai Prakash moving India towards the real, core changes?59:43 - Slavoy Zizek and India’s need for capitalism, Problem of Socialism1:05:40 - Jai Prakash and Janata party moving away from Post-Colonial India1:12:41 - New Leaders coming out of the Janata Party, Jai Prakash’s IdealsConnect with Ruchir Sharmaruchirsharma.euTwitter: ruchirsharma_1Art of ConversationLearns to have better conversations with anyone. Taught by Prakhar himself artofconversation.inConnect with us [email protected] on InstagramGet in touch:email: [email protected]
