Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years who retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW, is currently an adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent public-policy think tank based in New Delhi. He writes regularly on security, foreign relations, and strategic issues in journals and newspapers and has contributed chapters related to security, China, intelligence, and India's neighborhood to books published in the last few years. He is an Author of Bestselling Books The Unending Game (2018) and The Ultimate Goal, (2020)
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Vikram Sood on "Real power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from those who control the narrative" in Conversation with Dr. Ashutosh Paturkar
On 27th Nov 4.00 pm - 4.40 pm
“Worlds are going to be different. Wars are changed. Economic control of corporate is strong than the state. Fake stories become true, and truth becomes blurred. We are an indifferent state. AI is fully grown. Are we losing control? Science is now playing us. We will have war with UAVs, drones with the comfort of Air conditioning. It is going to be a very different kind of war. Cold war exists at this time also. Russian died more WW2 than any other nation. War is already on. People are dying with many contradictions. War is not very visible, but it is there. The US said they are global power; it has to create the narrative. The narrative has the purpose of giving messages of superiority. Narratives bring profits, a lot of profits. Nothing is free. Whatever you are doing is being watched. You use the free services of Google, but it’s not free. Those companies get your data. The narrative makes false true and true, false. Black Friday is nonsense of the west we are following mindlessly. We are using the western way of the communication system; what if they withdraw? Our system will collapse. I don’t have freedom everything will be propaganda. We are not mature enough to understand to proper use of freedom of speech. We must learn not to engage with an abusive person.”