NCAER Podcasts: Episode – 4 Topic: Guest: Host: Transcript: UD:

I try to do my job of sorting out what's going on in the best way I can with my values and my knowledge and my research in topics which I think our readers will find interesting and important and then it's for the rest of the world and the bubble the editor of course to decide whether it's worth having me continue to do this. [...] Because if people don't trust information, the famous remark of GK Chesterton, a very reactionary British writer, who once said, that the problem when people cease to believe in God is not that they believe in nothing but they believe in anything and the way I think of this is the problem when people cease to believe that there is a source of truth is not that they believe in nothing but that they. [...] And for India, I don't think I need to go through the potential risks of that becoming more general in terms of communal relations, in terms of issues relating to social and religious relationships in the country and the sheer complexity of this monstrously large country with all the changes that it's undergoing. [...] But the result is that the fragilities in the global financial system from the stability point of view and from the point of view of development are very, very significant. [...] And to be rationally hopeful, they should try to the extent that they are able, and of course fortune and luck is so much involved in this, to get the best education and pursue activities which both excite them and will give them the means to live a decent and normal life.