India must tell its own story | Vikram Sood |

Any country that seeks its rightful place in the world must be able to tell its own story. “Real power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from those who control the narrative,” says Vikram Sood.
Military and economic power are not enough; perceptions and narratives are an essential part of statecraft. That is powerful states create their own narratives about themselves, their policies of superiority, in every aspect, to dominate the other. Narratives are built over time, are not necessarily dependent on truth. If a major power with global interests wbishes to retain its supremacy or prevent alternatives centres pf power from emerging, it naturally must be able to tell its own story - tell it first, tell it well and repeatedly, in different ways and at different times.’
We know that India’s narrative was created by the West.To add to it, a premeditated dislike for BJP and NDA has added to a global narrative and that is being encouraged by the left dominated media. The term ‘fascist’ is bandied about, yet no critic of the government, however virulent, has been stifled.
So, this is really the time for us, the citizens of this nation, to address the question of who we are. Find our identity and rewrite our own narrative.
SUB TOPICS
0:00 Introduction
2:00 what is a narrative
8:00 America’s narratives- Iraq, Afghanistan
9:24 How did the British control India?
12:00 British used religion to curb nationalism in the middle east
14:00 Kennedy assassination
20:44 The role of a good citizen
22:30 Narrative against NDA
27:00 Indian liberals
28:00 Atmanirbhar Bharat & Make in India are not Import substitution
32:03 We have to rewrite our history
42:05 Media, role of media
46:04 Wrong side of History in 1947, Socialist, Pro-Soviet, Pro-Russian
49:33 Social media
54:03 India’s neighborhood policy
1:02:00 Where India held its ground
1:06:20 Think tanks in smaller cities
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[@harshpriyadarshi9015]

Unless lion has a story teller, history will always glorify the hunters - a legend from Africa

[@jeanrusso3822]

that says it all!!!

[@vasanthavanajakumarikadiam3980]

Rightly said. The Indian Lions are roaring now, and we are happy about that and proud of that.

[@petechau6314]

Well said 🙏🏼

[@maheshbhashker3269]

He is right about the western media. Indians are paying to much attention on these reports about India. Just ignore them. And after some time they will stop. We can learn from Brasil ,China,Japan, Israel and Phillipines.

[@bhavanapatelabsolutelytrue2625]

Yes he is very true, foreign medias cannot bring fake news to their people by all means.

[@49ajai]

We must have full control. Our elected Government must be strict in their policy.They must give assuring reply to the media.

[@Pandeyziii123]

I think we are boycotting bollywood is a bad step...since US uses Hollywood or Japan uses Anime to build narrative according to their need...similarly we need bollywood as a chuck too...as to build our narrative...it's just we need a drastical change in bollywood system...but we would surely need a more powerful bollywood industry to put our narrative too...it may hv very small part in narrative building too...but atleast it has

[@takeshikovacs8756]

@@Pandeyziii123 No bollywood must be stopped/banned because it's a Narco prostitution industry and they can't make a movie for shit

[@rohitravi8750]

Who cares about western media See indian media all are bhakts of modi Such asholes they are Ravish kumar was right indian media is now degrading indian democracy It's making modi win every time by doing hindu Muslim

[@niraj2020]

Dr. Rajiv Malhotra like people who put his own efforts and money ignored despite huge talent, achievment and seen the west closely with corporate angle, secrecy of working etc. Despite of all govt. ignored him and not helping in various ways. He is doing what govt suppose to do for our future generations.

[@MG13572]

I admire his efforts and perseverance.🙏🙏

[@vasanthrai1275]

Yes you are 100% right. Govt must support people who want to build new India.

[@manoharkamath501]

Narratives are influenced by actual experiences. Almost every interaction with a government official can be scary and dehumanising for us Indians... Rajeev Malhotra Ji's experience shows, how our politicians and bureaucrats treat good people. Government officials are decent people who become insensitive assholes once in the government...

[@lajwantishahani1225]

Sorry but I don't agree. Let the government do its job in governance and more people like Rajiv Malhotra come forward to build public narrative, which is happening today across social media by individuals and groups like Sangam Talks. If they need funding then WE should support them through crowdsourcing. If they want to build Gurukuls or libraries, again go through crowdsourcing or private investors; anyway, govt involvement will come with bureaucratic control! And if you're wondering what is the government doing? Bringing in legislations like banning triple talak, abrogation of art 370, bringing in CAA, reshaping our education system, dealing with Covid support at national/international levels... besides strengthening our armed forces with the office of Chief of Armed Forces, building regional allies to defend the country from outside attacks. I hope the third term will bring a legislation to stop all conversions of Hindus, to begin with!! 🙏

[@AradhyaShrivastava]

EXACTLY! I support and I try to do that. Sir's books are wonderful. Everyone must read.

[@sudarsanamkristam1440]

India Bharat is the most ancient country in the world, every one on earth must respect Bharat mata jai Shree Ram Jai Bharat

[@mgovil4425]

He deserve a top rank in the International media platform 'DD International' that we're gonna launch soon .

[@satyadevi4939]

We love you❤ God bless good health and happy 😍

[@jayantghosh6192]

I am TRULY BLESSED and GRATEFUL to have seen this video... Thank you very much..👏👏.. and particularly I want to THANK Mr. Vikram Sood🙏🙏 to take me to a Different DIMENSION, to an HONEST Platform...NOT KNOWN BY ME TILL NOW👍👍..... for the better of course.... for My 🇮🇳Country and ✌✌me.... 🙂😊

[@kaceobrwa7039]

We're still teaching indian history written by foreigners in our school books

[@joshkumar865]

HRD ministry proudly??? Said we didn't change even a Comma 🤦‍♂️

[@satyajitchattopadhyayyt]

I respect this man so much.

[@mitraadhikary4047]

TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR PAST, YES 👍 👌 SIR YOU ARE RIGHT

[@upggud]

धर्मपाल जी की किताब - अंग्रेजों से पहले का भारत में अंतिम सलाह ऐसी ही है। दुनिया को दूसरों की दृष्टि से नहीं, अपनी दृष्टि से देखें और बताएं।

[@saughatabasumatary1072]

Har Har Mahadev

[@Santosh-te9js]

It is better that RICH WITH KNOWLEDGE SHOULD GET RICHER

[@pruthvirajthegreat]

Shouldn't we start by teaching our future generations about our rich cultural heritage by incorporating the content in text books?

[@pavitraranjanswain4010]

There is no chronological records of rich heritage. Indian kings / Emperors never kept any recorded incidents or major events of their reign. All the incidents are remembered as folklores. If you ask about History of Odisha, each sub-division, each-panchayat have their own version of history. In case of Roan, Greek you will get consistent version from more than three authors. But in India nothing is available. In Odisha there are 6-8 big Buddhist ruins. But there is no historical writings on those sites. Every expert gives their own versions. Whose version will you record in the text book.? Now at least recorded events are available after 1857 in libraries. The events after 1957 should ne incorporated in the History Books honestly. In Odisha History recorded events are available after Maratha took over. So from Maratha to Modern Odisha, the history of Odisha available with out any contradiction.

[@kookiechannel3060]

@@pavitraranjanswain4010 there are proper records with logic about some great ones but they are still untold for some hidden political reasons and only some average ones are publicized and that too on priority basis of legitimacy from i don't know who. most influential and powerful and successful ones are ignored. plus many universities and libraries got burnt along with many scholars too and many scripts are stolen too. still i heard some efforts have been made for better history in text books. i'm waiting for true narrative of how crown rule was brutally established by massacres and not a small revolt as potrayed.

[@jojobabok9373]

@@pavitraranjanswain4010 It's less to do with Indian Kings/Emperors not keeping records & more to do with out-groupers destroying them. The Greeks & Chinese never faced such cultural & intellectual obliteration even during their occupation periods (under the Romans & Mongolians respectively). These colonizers if anything, venerated (& proliferated) their hosts' intellectual culture. The Ms were not so kind to the Indian sub-continent. Neither were the British (especially under the Crown's project). Al Beruni marvels in his travel log about how Indians had books for so many diverse fields of study. Huang Sung made similar observations on Nalanda. My conclusion being, India must make every effort to tell its history on its terms. Else, it would be giving in to these unwarranted out-groupers. India must also work towards geo-politically diminishing these out-groupers & culturally subjugating them (without any major physical confrontation, of course).

[@saughatabasumatary1072]

Jai Shree Ram

[@sridharmurthy1076]

Only wish our politicians listen to this and perhaps read the book, if they are educated enough. But Modi, Amit shah certainly ought to see this video and act upon it.

[@HarshKumar-xt6uq]

I think they are taking this seriously .They just decided to launch our DD international version to build our narrative amd our point of view in the world. Hope it goes alright.

[@dr.nkgrover]

Salute from Canada to dear Vikram Sood, Great thoughts, excellent perspective!

[@Sunny12-23]

What luck I just bought the book. And now this talk. Vikramji's assessment of things is spot on.

[@gourangabiswas2504]

Try to read his book The Ultimate Goal

[@gourangabiswas2504]

@Ritesh Arora Deconstruct how nations construct narratives

[@ajayraina8478]

I will read it… But who is the author??

[@gourangabiswas2504]

@@ajayraina8478 former RAW chief Vikram Sood

[@subhajit0]

I like the slow, deliberate and reflective (or even meditative) thinking by Vikram Sood with nuggets of golden wisdom and insights every now & then. He is a sage or a Rishi of the modern times. He deserves the respect and attention of all Indians !

[@cherriesinsnow]

Amazing 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@worldcitizen3519]

So much truth in what Vikram Sir is mentioning

[@aniruddhsinghchavda334]

Good to here Mr. Sood 🙏

[@tresajessygeorge210]

THANK YOU SIR...!!! YOU HAVE SAID IT WELL...INDIA MUST TELL HER STORY...REPEATEDLY...TO LET OUR NATIONALS AND THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH...ABOUT INDIA...!!! WE MUST UNITE STRONG WITHOUT NORTH- SOUTH ; AND EAST- WEST MENTALITY...!!! WE MUST GROOM OURSELVES NATIONWIDE GEOGRAPHICALLY AND Personality Wise...!!! APPEARANCES IS EVERYTHING...!!! IT IS THE UNTOLD STORY OF ANYONE AND ANYTHING...EVEN IN A JOB INTERVIEW...!!! GROOMING WITH CLASS...!!! IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH EFFORT AND MONEY...BUT WILLINGNESS TO HAVE RESPECT FOR SELF& OTHERS ...AND PRIDE IN OUR NATION...!!! EVEN IN A HUT WE COULD HAVE CLASS...IN ,HOW WE WELCOME OTHERS...!!!

[@Santosh-te9js]

That is way we Love u Good is not being BORN

[@avsraj]

Yes Indian History must rewrite before invasion and after invasion and from pre-school mother tongue as first language Sanskrit must be second language up to undergraduate level and english third language

[@paulthomas281]

Excellent! I suggest that Savitri by Sri Aurobindo (the greatest epic in English!) be taught in schools. Just like Italians read portions of Dante, and Germans Goethe. Why Savitri? Well there are a number of reasons.

[@RitikRai-kc4oc]

If you can list out reasons, maybe it would help us.

[@rudramath5949]

Ramayana and Mahabharata are most essential things to be thought to our school children apart from Upanishads and Yoga.

[@poonamkumari3752]

If we start educating people of our country about the glory of our past i.e what was our extent from Afghanistan to far east asia.....the resistance we raised to invaders,the intricate art and majestic opulence of our temples, scientific traditional values,yoga,aayurveda,scientific discoveries, establishment of world level sanskrit university so that highest level intellectual come only from india,decoding all knowledge of Vedas and providing it to our citizens,make world level reaserch n teaching University like nalanda today......identifying places of concern relating to other part of the world like Buddhist places of worship can do wonders in few years...... We are the furure bcz all the strength lie within us....

[@swarganila]

Yes !! 👍👍

[@ashishpatel350]

love your work

[@Santosh-te9js]

So KNOWLEDGE IS POWERFUL IF NOT GIVEN 😭

[@cherriesinsnow]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@mamtamalik8902]

Excellent show. Very informative.

[@mannu01shubham]

Amazing book sir 🙏🙏🙏

[@subhankardeysarkar1043]

👍👍👍

[@bkvenggviews8203]

Congratulations great brother congratulations

[@pkv4590]

Respected Sir, I have absorbed your view of not being too honest about the past and current level of corruption in BHARAT and show our helplessness to a westerner. You are right they like it. I will from now on talk about my culture and civilization.

[@ushabhende4040]

Earlier it was called Age of Epics and formed part of syllabus; first war of independence has been used but if you standardize this usage then you are denying the hundreds of battles to throw off the British rule. The difference is that the earlier ones were all localised whereas 1857 was an all Bharat phenomenon.

[@striker44]

People look for outside validation rather than seeking mutual feedback. Then, people become sensitive and defensive, followed by arrorogance and belligerence, to superiority complex and excess, followed by a sense of entitlemen and complacency takes over, until someone 'colonoizes' you. Owning the narrative is a necessary evil but truth always wins.

[@Santosh-te9js]

There r two TEACHERS ONE TEACHER OTHER IS PARENT HOW IT CAN BE CHANGED WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY

[@dharmikrakshak8340]

Tech true history to young minds Narrative will emerge it self

[@Sunny-rh6ik]

🙏👍

[@persaud1]

👌🙏✊

[@petechau6314]

India is known for Capital of spirituality and Spices and Sandle wood and ebony etc . This should be priority to be the #1 country in the world - so the world is forced to take care of India with respect 🙏🏼🙏🏼India is better off doing barter system with Africa - Taking rare earth material, copper , and gold and diamond etc in return of export to africa

[@rudramath5949]

HAR HAR MAHADEV...

[@dhimanttrivedi1316]

I feel really sorry for the young generation who are asking questions. They even can't wish Sood Sir before asking question. Not acceptable, They should respect such personality.

[@kartiknegi4167]

Respect sir

[@RitikRai-kc4oc]

PLEASE HINDU BHAI BEHNOO GO TO TEMPLE EVERY TUESDAY AT LEAST ONCE IN WEEK. SO YOU CAN UNITE AND MAKE GROUPS ON YOUR LOCAL LEVEL. GO TO TEMPLE EVERY TUESDAY. JAI SHRI RAM🙏 SPREAD THIS MISSION/NARRATIVE EVERY WHERE THIS IS MISSION OF ALL HINDU

[@vishalahir1458]

Thnks sangam

[@galaxyj812]

Old is gold. Hinduism is the gold of all religions on the earth.

[@vasanthrai1275]

Soodsab feel sad when you say we should know our own History, our real History was hidden from us. We had enough of Mughal & British History, at least now our younger generation should know our really History, so they feel proud to be Indians.

[@alwynjohndsouza4261]

Kindly make sure to of videos of shorter duration with part 1 ,2,and 3 or so instead of 1 hour of full version.

[@Santosh-te9js]

How do we we good within In BHARAT

[@lajwantishahani1225]

As a history teacher my experience was of a severe mental block from parents who don't want their children to focus on history as a subject because it won't help in their future prospects. Very few were honest to say that they found it boring in their own school studies. The fact is, our syllabus of Indian History is meant to create disinterest among students. I hope the new education policy will address this but maybe before we get the proposed syllabus (followed up by revamping of school textbooks!) there is a need for successfully reshaping the public narrative.

[@vasanthavanajakumarikadiam3980]

Mughal E Azam, which was a fake narrative, was a big hit. Samrat Prithviraj was a big flop. There must be quality products for the people to connect with them. What you said got me thinking, sir. Maybe our History textbooks indeed have been deliberately made uninteresting. The practice of inculcating Indianness into kids must consciously and deliberately taken up. Gifting sets of Amar Chitra Katha to young kids of friends and extended family could be a nice way of catching them young doing it in an enjoyable way.

[@sumanpaul2587]

Smal suggestion to the interviewers. Write your question before your speak . Iterate and make it short and concise to the point . Don’t mix two questions, ask a question in a way that fetch the answer you are seeking.

[@Santosh-te9js]

BHARAT HAS MANY MEANING

[@Santosh-te9js]

Sir Even if We gave them TWO COUNTRY STILL WE HAVE THE BOMB😀

[@Santosh-te9js]

CAN EVERYONE IN BHARAT HAVE BOOKS BEHIND

[@vikkysahu8420]

I strongly recommend this book please read .

[@arjunpratap5482]

Although both the questions as well as answers have been put out in a very simple and easy to understand language, however, my request is that please re-conduct this program in HINDI so that the masses get the correct message on this narration building

[@gangap.k.3922]

You are right. Be quick~ collect individual stories of those in their 90/100yrs, and those who are born before 1947. The stories of their parents,teaches and neibhours .their shared stories from their parents and grand parents,who lived as common people in british rule. Take my case. My 1st posting was Jhunjhunu as a lady doctor. Iwas surprised to note the names, Kavery, Narayanee common in Palghat,kerala. Now books are obsolete make digital stories. 'Jai~Bharath~Vasudevakutumbakam

[@jeanrusso3822]

Its a long time overdue! Unlike Egypt, it's always the whites telling the story of Egypt...But I don't see many non-europeans telling the story of Europe...

[@Santosh-te9js]

WHO will do the GOOD AND HOW it can be done

[@Santosh-te9js]

Budget Should be there

[@kiransurvase96]

I fully support him

[@Santosh-te9js]

When we can learn Sloka That is there were Everywhere our LITERATURE WAS DESTROYED

[@Santosh-te9js]

YES

[@Santosh-te9js]

Civil servants r doing GOOD JOB

[@Santosh-te9js]

Taking good vs DOING GOOD

[@Santosh-te9js]

Competition is ONLY FOR GOOGLE

[@Santosh-te9js]

We HAVE STATE'S GOING DEEP😀

[@Santosh-te9js]

Why ONLY DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN CHALLENGED

[@sudipchou]

Sir please read Editor Missing by Ruben Banerjee! Lately the current regime has stifled all media outlet which criticise the establishment!

[@Santosh-te9js]

Sir ONE THING U UNDERSTAND JOB IS TO BE DONE BUT COUNTRY IS DIFFERENT

[@Santosh-te9js]

Prejudice is a law Which not ever permitted

[@Santosh-te9js]

Sir We KNOW U HAD THE FINE JOB OF PROTECTING CAN U SAY BHARAT IS PROTECTED IF NOT U SHOULD DO SOMETHING

[@Sankaranthi]

Inferiority complex or feeling needs to go ….. India is a old civilisation that needs to refind itself…. No one else will help….

[@AdityaYadav-qy4qy]

india is starting tellling its stor y through dd international global channel broadcast.we pursue the narrative of india as we have the largest internet penetration to show chanakya era back,

[@niveditamishra6875]

Mr Sood, but haven't you heard and read Will Durant? In his seminal work The Story of Civilization - he talks about India and the Brits did. Its called The case of India. There has been pure, high quality academic work. The colonizer alone wasn't writing history.

[@gangap.k.3922]

Tell the story on our own global server/ platform. So that twitter like platforms can not edit to their narative

[@bipinkr1067]

Sir can you share the name of the book

[@bengalihindu]

The Ultimate Goal it is shown in the beginning..

[@kanishkgulwadi9245]

Hey upload Talageri ji's Video

[@vrushalishende7437]

India needed parallel Social Media yesterday.

[@govindarun1947]

10:30 28:39💯 51:18

[@baadindyan]

We need to understand how much the English language apartheid state in India is handicapping us as a nation and as a civilization. The reason we cannot have Indian correspondents from foreign countries is because we are an extremely Anglophile culture at the urban upper middle class levels (and other classes only aspire towards it as measure of success). Most humans can be multilingual fluently in 2-3 languages while having functional adequacy in one more. We drive ourselves to be beyond just functionally adequate in English to being technically fluent in English, which generally means we end up not learning some other languages, and thus it closes doors for us. In this way, a deeply entrenched Islamist from Kerala madrasaah system that only knows Malayalam, Urdu and Arabic is a better fit for Indian national interests as he can be a correspondent across Arab world. Now who can be our correspondent to give news and analysis from China? How many Indians are learning Chinese only to point of technical fluency? What about Japanese or Spanish (entire South and Central America) or French? We have to depend on Reuters or associated press to give updates from neighboring Myanmar. That's just sad.

[@Santosh-te9js]

Our PROBLEM IS EDUCATION IT IS GETTING DENT

[@niraj2020]

There is talent crunch in govt., lack of will, slow in decision making, fearing talented and courageous people in govt, PM Modi and Shah and cabinet colleagues and secretaries, advisors seems discomfort as they feel exposed their weakness and dishonesty. Lacks 2 way communication from top leadership. Mismanagement various domestic issues.

[@kookiechannel3060]

true. :(

[@Santosh-te9js]

U where a VERY Fine DIPLOMAT BUT WE R TALKING ABOUT SOUTH EAST ASIA INCLUDING BHARAT

[@sushantkumar197]

Sir book likhne ke bajaye...aap movie ya short movie banaye...to jyada log dekh sakege aur jaan sakege

[@Santosh-te9js]

They destroyed MILAN WHAT WE CAN DO TO TEACH THEM PROPERLY

[@vve2059]

First

[@baadindyan]

The comments at 21:20 ish about how Indians complain about India and society and governance... this is natural human behavior. MOST nationalities people are this way. The answer in narrative building lies in what the speaker has mentioned in the beginning. We need to have foreign correspondent offices for our media houses based in all the foreign countries. One other sad thing I have noticed related to the above point, is that not only do Indian audiences not have an Indian source for news coming out of the West but rather regurgitate the output from Reuters or AP, but Indians even have to use these resources for things even in our immediate neighborhood whether Myanmar or Thailand or Qatar or Yemen. This is nothing but laziness.

[@bhupendrapatel1261]

Sonia and India, Nehru all are Hindu dhrohi. Are they married to any Hindu? They are muslim christian family that India know now. Only 1 hindu woman was there in that family, And she was forced out of their house on SG's death. That's Khatun Indira & Nehru family is. Isn't? At least that what interpret to derive it.

[@Shotsfyred]

So India needs deprogramming..haw haw

[@Santosh-te9js]

Social is COMMUNITY IT SHOULD BE LEFT OUT

[@raijagat4905]

Are you a BOT

[@Santosh-te9js]

@@raijagat4905 😀😀😀

[@Santosh-te9js]

Kabhi biwi ka dulati Kabhi DOSTON KA PYAR IT IS COMMUNITY

[@MG13572]

A day would come..just to appease and glorify sickularism, we would remove satyamev jayete from our emblem.😡

[@jitenderarora8555]

All the participants are Indians yet rely on a foreign language.... that shall sum it all up

[@vasapuram]

Search Zero Budget Politics in KZbin

[@mahendradev2756]

22 crores muslims will never agree on narrative of india as they claim to be arabs/babar / glory/ ghaznavi nor rama/ krishna

[@blitz4203]

Well no one is asking them to accept the narrative, narratives geta into the subconscious of the mind.

[@ChalakudyTales]

Forgive all problematic news and forget everything that is magnificent in holy scriptures, if it's important you will eventually recollect it.

[@Santosh-te9js]

Uncle ur LARGER PICTURE COMES with SMALL THINGS

[@Santosh-te9js]

Uncle jo bhagata hai Unko wapas MILEGA

[@sidmukh123]

History is written by winners , not whiners. Move along old man