Article 370 and article 35A are now history thanks to the most important duo of independent India - Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. The first step to addressing the existential crisis of India has happened right under their watch and a new beginni

Temple vandalism reveals why Islam is a threat to humanity

Jul 4th, 2019 1h 22m

A muslim mob recently vandalised a Hindu temple in old Delhi. A heated debate is going on right now, to understand what happened and why it happened. While incidents like these keep happening now and then in our country, this time it's a bit di

Modus operandi of Leftists - Deny, deny, deny?

Jun 21st, 2019 1h 14m

Oh, the leftists. They know nothing but to deny, deceive and lie. It is the same modus operandi as low level crooks who steal and when they get caught, they say they didn't do it. Isn't that how criminals behave when they get caught? Deny, den

How the Anti Modi Media ecosystem hijacks narratives in Tamil Nadu

Jun 19th, 2019 1h 15m

While BJP secured a single-party majority in LS 2019 elections by dominating the national narratives, the same party failed to secure even a single seat in TN. Even worse is the fact that its allies in the NDA got a lonely 1 out of 38 seats tha

How BJP dominated the narratives of Lok Sabha Election 2019

May 27th, 2019 2h

All narratives of the 2019 elections, laid bare. Before and after the results, we analyze how BJP has managed to control, steer and dominate the narratives of this year's historic elections. As we had expected, Narendra Modi has won. From bein

How we voted for Modi

Apr 18th, 2019 1h 12m

Behind the scenes of Elections 2019 - Phase 2 - Tamil Nadu

Politics in Social Media - The true story of @HariIndic

Apr 7th, 2019 1h 26m

Social Media has largely replaced mainstream media as the primary news platform, in which individual sources have gradually become known personalities. Every user on a platform like Twitter has their own megaphone, own small media company which

The true face of a failed ideology called socialism

Apr 3rd, 2019 1h 9m

When you're part of the culture war, a lot of words are thrown around with deep assumptions behind them. Fascists are right wing lunatics, the Nazis were the worst of the RW so any nationalist is either a Nazi or a Fascist. But when you peel th

The illusion of neutrality, a positive social justice and the reality of demographics

Mar 24th, 2019 1h 22m

Is there a neutral position in politics? Or is it just an illusion? If there's neutrality, how could it really manifest in decision making? What is a "positive" social justice? Is this the trump card that will fix India's traditional caste-bas

Serious question - In 2019, has India fully decolonized yet?

Mar 18th, 2019 1h 9m

The so-called founding fathers of our constitution have made sure that it is going to take quite some time to fully decolonize ourselves from the clutches of an occupying mindset. We are still occupied and still communicating in a language fore

Intolerant Indians - another update

Mar 11th, 2019 1h 22m

Just another update before we begin season 3 of our podcast. It’s been an insane ride and we’d like to thank each and every one of you who’s been listening to our intolerant conversations on Indian politics. We are very excited about the upcomi

Wg Cdr Abhinandan's return exposes the reasons why Pakistan shouldn't exist

Mar 8th, 2019 1h

"Pakistan is not a country, it's a mindset." - said a wise man on Twitter. This mindset is corrupt to the core because it is built on fear and responds to any kind of communication with hatred. Such a mind is not good for the survival of a soci

Decoding the mind of a terrorist

Mar 8th, 2019 1h 8m

Make order from chaos by listening to our latest episode.

Pulwama aftermath - What do we do about enemies of the state from within and from outside? w/ guidance from Maridhas

Feb 17th, 2019 1h 6m

Roughly two days after one of the most horrific terror attacks on Indian soil, we try to gather our thoughts on and around the event which saw the loss of 44 precious lives of our armed forces. At a time when we require the utmost unity, to s

Divide and Rule - Decoding the cheap, hateful politics of the corrupt

Feb 9th, 2019 1h 15m

The British did leave India in 1947, but has the ideology they used to rule India left?Divide and Rule still is the no. 1 idea preferred by our homegrown corrupts, who act pretty much like the mafia, to advance only their own interests instea

World Economics and Responsible Business 101 with Maridhas Answers

Feb 7th, 2019 1h 29m

What's debt? What's a nation's external debt? Is having debt a good thing or a bad thing? And what kind of a position does a nation state occupy in the scheme of things?Why does the world bank exist? What kind of a system does it follow? Sinc

New India begins with a surgical strike on our inferiority complex

Jan 23rd, 2019 1h 14m

Fresh after watching Uri: The Surgical Strike, we, the intolerant Indians, discuss why this film is a lot more than what it seems. A surgical strike which has been the modus operandi of Israeli reactions to terror strikes on its people, has gai

Globalism vs Nationalism

Jan 13th, 2019 1h 11m

Can we afford to live with unlocked doors and open gates? Sure, that'd be a wonderful scenario but right now, do you think it's possible? No, right?Applying the same logic, in a macro-home like a nation-state, we realize we need borders and s

Kashmir - an existential crisis [Part 2]

Jan 7th, 2019 48m

A quick clarification from Bharadwaj - Instead of Sheikh Abdulla, I had said Farook Abdulla in the podcast. Farook is Sheikh’s son and Omar is Farook’s. I regret the error, enjoy the rest of the episode, cheers! Our intolerant views on Kashmir

Kashmir - an existential crisis [Part 1]

Jan 4th, 2019 49m 13s

Kashmir! What a beautiful place, heaven on earth! Unfortunately it's split into two, in conflict since the partition. An unresolved injury on the nation's psyche.Why is Kashmir so conflict ridden? What are the possible reasons behind this? How

Why every Indian should read "Monsoon" by Robert D Kaplan

Dec 18th, 2018 55m 33s

In trying to understand what is happening in this crazy crazy world, two things are very important - the place where it happens and the time when it happens. These two questions pretty much give the entire context to the mind of a culture. Take

Election aftermath: Here's why we need Rajini's spiritual politics more than ever

Dec 13th, 2018 58m 13s

To the shock of many world-class entitled political commentators on social media, BJP has been kicked out of three states where they ruled. MP has been lost after 13 years, Chattisgarh after 15 and Rajasthan is in the usual cyclic churn. Is Mod

Intolerant Indians - an update

Nov 19th, 2018 15m 45s

With the last episode "How did TN politics get here?" we called it the end of "Season 1" as we realized it was time to reflect on what we had started as just an experiment in expression. This episode is just that. A reflection of what we have

Tamil Nadu - How did our politics get here?

Nov 8th, 2018 54m 10s

Tamil Nadu - Only when we started digging its political history did we find that the state’s name didn’t exist before 1969. Armed with such ignorance, we take a journey into the history of politics in Tamil Nadu to see where we have come from.