This is a 3 hour interview published today on the Lex Fridman Podcast, touches on various topics, including an 11 min segment on his relations with DJT during his first and second terms.

Quite insightful, cue to 1 hour 29 min mark.

Youtube

quote:
OUTLINE:
0:00? - In this episode...
3:07? - Introduction
9:19? - Fasting
21:38? - Early life
33:33? - Advice to Young People
39:16? - Journey in the Himalayas
50:45? - Becoming a monk
52:33? - RSS and Hindu nationalism
1:00:17? - Explaining India
1:04:27? - Mahatma Gandhi
1:16:23? - Path to peace in Ukraine
1:19:37? - India and Pakistan
1:25:16? - Cricket and Football
1:29:41 - Donald Trump
1:40:51? - China and Xi Jinping
1:47:56? - Gujarat riots in 2002
2:03:33? - Biggest democracy in the world
2:13:48? - Power
2:18:34? - Hard work
2:21:42? - Srinivasa Ramanujan
2:23:48? - Decision-making process
2:31:35? - AI
2:41:50? - Education
2:52:06? - Learning and focus
2:57:56? - Mantra
2:59:41? - Meditation
3:05:38? - Lex visiting India
3:10:04? - Siddhartha

Both, choose to put country first, regardless of obstacles they face, no wonder they have mutual appreciation for each other!

This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 1:10 pm

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Posted by goatmilker

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Posted on 3/16/25 at 1:27 pm to Bamboozles

Good listen.
India's space program is going to keep them a major player going forward. Control the skies as it were. And his words were very kind towards DJT.

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Posted by tide06

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Posted on 3/16/25 at 1:28 pm to Bamboozles

India can threaten China as a global economic powerhouse if they play their cards right:
-cheap labor
-pro US
-respect IP
-avoid strategic confrontations and trade wars
-educated cheap white collar labor pool

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Posted by goatmilker

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Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:23 pm to tide06

Can you imagine a USA that is three thousand years old?
That's India.