Abhijit Chavda: India’s Rising Position on the Grand Chessboard

Geopolitics & Empire

Politics, News, Government, History

4.2 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Indian geopolitical analyst, scientist, and podcaster Abhijit Chavda explores India’s evolving role in global geopolitics, particularly amid the rise of multipolarity and intensifying U.S.-China tensions. Chavda highlights India's strategic shift from post-independence nonalignment to an increasingly assertive global presence under Prime Minister Modi. He discusses India’s geographic advantages, economic growth, and ambition to become a major manufacturing hub despite internal challenges like bureaucracy and inadequate education systems. The conversation touches on India's desire to maintain positive relations with both Western and Eastern blocs, while avoiding entanglement in great power rivalries. They also address Western perceptions of India, growing xenophobia, and the implications of AI and technological arms races, concluding that the U.S. remains the dominant superpower but faces critical decisions in a rapidly changing global order. *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://easydns.com Escape Technocracy course (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://www.chavda.org YouTube https://www.youtube.com/AbhijitChavda X https://x.com/AbhijitChavda About Abhijit Chavda Abhijit Chavda is a Geopolitical analyst, podcaster, writer and scientist with over a following of over a million across social media. He shares his unique insights on geopolitics, world history and science on the AskAbhjit show, his YouTube videos, and in guest appearances on podcasts and TV channels. He is the founder of the hugely popular Abhijit Chavda podcast where he has informative and insightful conversations with people who matter. Some of his most insightful podcasts include conversations with Mr. Mohandas Pai, Shri Dattatreya Hosabale Ji, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Dr. Edward Luttwak, Dr. Kanwal Sibal and many more. He was a speaker at the World Hindu Congress 2023 held in Bangkok and has has also represented India at the international level at the 2023 G20 proceedings and summit. He has served as a peer reviewer for Physica Scripta, a major international scientific journal for theoretical and experimental physics. He is a member of the consultative group to the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. He is one of the most relevant and influential voices in the Indian digital space, and a highly sought-after podcast guest and public speaker. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. As always, support the podcast. Best way you can do that is by becoming a paid subscriber on the substack. I produce an analysis every week in written audio and video format going through the most important events that's going on through the week.
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0:26.7	And I got a wonderful guest today joining us is Abhijit Chavda, who's a geopolitical
0:32.4	analyst, podcaster, writer, scientist with the following of over a million across social media.
0:37.6	He's the host of the Abidjit Chavda podcast and Ask Abidjit Show, where he also interviews prominent thinkers.
0:43.8	He was a speaker at the World Hindu Congress in 2023 held in Bangkok, and he has also represented India at the international level of the 2023 G20 proceedings and summit.
0:52.3	He served as a peer reviewer for Physica's Crypta,
0:55.2	major international scientific journal for theoretical and experimental physics.
0:58.5	He's a member of the consultative group to the principal scientific advisor to the
1:02.2	government of India.
1:04.1	Welcome to geopolitics and empire, Abidjid.
1:07.2	Thank you so much for having me, have Roy.
1:09.0	It's really nice to be on your podcast.
1:27.7	Well, thanks for coming on. You know, I discovered your fascinating work recently. You're very successful as an Indian podcaster, geopolitical analyst, scientists and so forth. And could you briefly introduce the audience to your podcast, the work that you do and how you came to have such great success.
1:35.0	So my career has been really interesting. It's had lots of twists and turns. I have a background in theoretical physics. That's my professional background. But I've worked in the
1:40.3	field of information technology for over a decade. There's that. And somehow during the lockdown period during COVID, I ventured into YouTube and it worked
1:50.7	out fine.
1:51.4	So nowadays, I'm a YouTuber.
1:53.3	I have a podcast.
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