"How can India navigate and accelerate its rise in this environment that is the single question... how can India leverage its partnerships... to accelerate its own capabilities at home." - Dhruva Jaishankar [00:02:48]

"The fact is for most political entities in history... they had to think strategically because it was a matter of existential…

"2,300 years before John Nash sat down at Princeton and wrote the 27-page thesis that would win him the Nobel Prize in economics... a man in Pataliputra wrote the same theorem. Not a similar idea, not a philosophical forerunner—the actual theorem." - Ronny [00:00:00]

"He names the players in the system... entirely by their structural relationship to…

"For FI27 the total defense budget is stated as 7.9 trillion INR... this is roughly about 2% of the total GDP." - Vikas [00:01:08]

"US has in absolute terms a little shy of a trillion dollar budget spending... out of the total $2.6-2.7 trillion of the total global defense budget." - Vikas…

Keynote Slides | Digital India: Fueling India’s Consumption Story | Address by Nandan Nilekani #FiresideVentures

"Every morning is a new headline and how one should deal with it. Sometimes the best thing is not to do anything about it." - PD Singh [00:04:07]

"I think we have the smartest businessmen in the world because they have picked really the right timing and the right price for some of the assets they picked up." - PD Singh…

"this two shall pass and uh we clearly had no inkling of what president trump will tweet but that one tweet i think has improved has changed things" - Prashant Jain [00:03:06]

"if you absorb 30 40 billion dollars of selling and you are down only 10%... it tells you a lot how resilient these markets have become apart from the economy" - **Prashant…

"A coordinated push created the rails for digital inclusion, making 2016 India's digital inflection point." - Speaker [00:01:42]

"Each innovation unlocked the next. India Stack was the keystone domino - and we are now in the acceleration phase." - Speaker [00:02:37]

"Aspiration has…

"If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed for more than four weeks, I think the world goes into recession." - Neelkanth Mishra [00:09:13]

"Compared to any other time in the past we are the best prepared to handle a crisis like this. Low fiscal deficits, slack in the economy, inflation is low, RBI sitting on reserves." - Neelkanth Mishra…

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"Sanskrit is really sometimes been dubbed the most scientifically organized language of all time with a noun system that has eight cases three genders and three numbers." - Clemency Montelle [00:03:09]

"If you write something in a book and you lose the book you're finished…

"once you see... it's everywhere... at its essence what is paint... it's a mixture of naturally found and manufactured substances" - Rohin Dharmakumar [00:02:37]

"painters are the the influencers of this industry right absolutely you i mean i think that word there was literally you know someone who said that this is an influencerled market" -…

"The story of Asian Paints is not just the story of a company which is once in a generation it's possibly the story of a company which is once in a nation's lifetime." - Rohin Dharmakumar [00:03:16]

"Being a trader or vapari is only a small part of our identity most Gujarati are shopkeepers not entrepreneurs or industrialists and we are…

"The idea that a rival economic power would not choose to build up its military and contest the number one power but instead accept a kind of subordinate status in which it subcontracts its foreign policy to the number one country is not only unheard of but violates every tenant of international relations theory." - Fareed Zakaria [00:12:52]

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"The world order which was set after the second world war is clearly crumbling which is why you're seeing all this geopolitical turmoil... We are back in 1930s. There is a 1940s in the coming decade in front of us." - Manish Chokhani [00:35:22]

"I truly do believe that this is the best place in the world to be a true spiritualist... you have to…

"we already come through the rough So maybe it's just a time correction that you're looking at and post that life should be quite easy" - Kenneth Andrade [00:01:58]

"a doomsday scenario is when your population stops growing and actually starts declining And I think that's that's the biggest problem that us not us as a country but us us as a specy…

"this market reminds one of a kangaroo market - one day it is up when President Trump announces positive thing about war and it becomes a bear market when President Trump announces something negative" - Nilesh Shah [00:00:22]

"we are witnessing a perfect storm - tariff, Middle East conflict, crypto meltdown, private credit market meltdown and yen…

"Just when we thought that we are done with issues regarding trade and tariff we're now besotted with another major geopolitical event on our hands and that is the war between US Israel and Iran." [00:00:31]

"Unless and until the Strait of Hormuz is left free for oil trade to flourish like it was before the war we may still have some risks and…

"We need to electrify and in fact power demand has to accelerate for us to be energy self-sufficient we don't have oil we don't have gas what we have is coal right and lots of sunshine right" - Nikhil Nigania [00:03:57]

"Our transmission network is better than US which many people find surprising but it is still lagging renewable capacity…