Mind your Buffalo

Buffalo Intellectual

All Episodes

Jan 06, 2025

Ep 43. New Year, New India- Grow up or Go Crazy

Oi happy new year babies, only 2 ways out from here-- grow up OR go crazy. There is no other way out of here, we cannot keep pretending things are great-- everything is falling apart. We cannot keep pretendin...

68 mins

Dec 18, 2024

Ep 42. End of the Soft (savarna) Elite Era

For the first time in 25 years, Indian urban (savarna) elites are no longer relevant to the discourse in politics, economy, society and culture. From woke hipsters to hustle tech bros-- all soft elites are now...

63 mins

Oct 31, 2024

Ep 41. Sad, Singles, Savarna Diwali

It's that beautiful time of the year when sad, single, savarna millennials will get together for the 'Diwali Party' while savarna gen Z monsters will take a break from demanding action & accountability to retur...

57 mins

Sep 29, 2024

Ep 40. Oldplay, Ladoos & Overwork Deaths

Coldplay concert tickets are unavailable and elite savarns are very very angry about it. Ladoos at Tirupati have been found to be tainted and a young woman died of overwork at E&Y. An action packed episode.

48 mins

Sep 05, 2024

Ep 39. Pure Veg Social Breakdown

Folks are "accidentally" killing people on "suspicion" of transporting beef, an old uncle is bullied by dudes on a moving train, elite schools are banning non-veg tiffin boxes & kids think Kalki 2898 AD is base...

65 mins

Aug 04, 2024

Ep 38. Creamy Castes

Our esteemed Lordships at the Supreme Court has spoken. SC/ST "creamy" layer should be skimmed they have suggested helpfully. An utterly, butterly episode deliciously unpacking the judgement on SC ST subcategor...

86 mins

Jul 24, 2024

Ep 37. The Trumpire Strikes Back

A deep dive on US 'Empire' from Gramsci, Adorno, Chomsky & Howard Zinn with special mentions to Kurt Vonnegut & Malcolm X ~ the Buffalo puts on his US history/politics "hat" literally & figuratively & breaks do...

85 mins

Jun 30, 2024

Ep 36. Who broke our cities?

Airports are falling apart, streets are flooded, air is unbreathable, its so hot that ACs are blowing up-- who is responsible for this? who created this mess? PS. stop blaming the politicians & enjoy the IPA!

57 mins

Jun 20, 2024

Ep 35. Indian Education: Everything is Broken

From NEET & UGC NET, to coaching class mafia, to private universities erasing caste-based affirmative action, to Not-Found-Suitable scams, to student suicides, to Teach for India, to NCERT tweaks, to changing S...

94 mins

Jun 04, 2024

Ep 34. Voting for Thrones (Voting Day Special)

Reactions to the Lok Sabha 2024 election results. I talk in particular of UP, Bihar, Bengal, Telangana mainly & the missed opportunities of INDIA in MP, Odisha, etc. I also talk of the future of BSP, VBA & Ambe...

90 mins