संवाद # 318: Sanskrit scholar exposes pseudoscience peddlers

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Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUOjpYruRCB61RnB846trCQ/join Nityānanda Miśra is a Mumbai-based finance professional in the investment banking industry. He specialises in quantitative finance, equity market microstructure, algorithmic trading, and execution consulting. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore (2007) and a gold medalist from Gujarat University (2004). Nityānanda is a multifaceted personality—a Sanskrit scholar, a polyglot, a grammarian, a littérateur, an instrumentalist, a musicologist, a researcher, an editor, an author, and a book designer. He has authored thirteen books, including several bestsellers. He is also a professional onomastician, specialising in Sanskrit names. Nityānanda is passionate about Indic culture, literature, music, and arts. He runs a popular YouTube channel, which produces content on these topics. 00:00:00 Trailer 00:00:42 Genuine greatness of Ancient Indians 00:03:50 Modern Indian Scientists We Should Be Proud Of 00:05:38 Misinterpreting Vedas to Claim Quantum Physics and Black Holes 00:06:30 Hollywood vs Indian Cinema on Real Scientists 00:08:44 Film 'Hawaizaada' & Fake Vaimanik Shashtra 00:09:36 Why Nobel Laureate Called Indian Science Congress a Circus 00:11:11 Dayanand Saraswati's Claim That America Is 'Patala' 00:17:02 Rigveda doesn't describe a Heliocentric Solar System 00:20:34 Dissecting True Meaning of Yajurveda Mantras 00:24:31 Vaimanika Shastra written after Wright brothers 00:29:07 Jyotiraditya Scindia, Onion & AC 00:30:11 Dr Harshvardhan's lie about Stephen Hawking 00:30:59 Sudhanshu Trivedi's 'Om Equals mc square' 00:35:41 Vedic Mathematics is not Vedic 00:39:14 Did Europeans Steal Secret Vedic Math Manuscripts? 00:41:45 Puri Shankaracharya's Claim on Computers 00:42:59 Baba Ramdev & Rajiv Dixit's Medical misinformation 00:45:00 Chinna Jeeyar Swami's 'world map in Mahabharata' 00:50:38 P.N. Oak's Absurd Linguistic Theories 00:53:59 Nilesh Oak's pseudoscientific claims 00:55:43 The Paracas Candelabra in Peru & Ramayan 0