Kushal Mehra is the host of Carvaka Podcast where he covers a wide range of subjects like sports, philosophy, public policy, current affairs, history, economics and much more.

In this episode of Dostcast, Vinamre and Kushal talk about the problems with woke politics, explaining the Jai Sai Deepak Twitter debate situation, state of Indian academia, history of Indian politics, reading religious texts as an atheist, Indian genetics & demography, Indic philosophy and the Carvaka darshana.

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0:00 Intro
1:00 Why do smart people believe in strange things?
3:50 Oppression and reservations
7:47 Podcasting and interviewing
15:35 Mocking everything is fun
16:50 The era of Rahul Gandhi and the BJP
20:25 Trump
25:00 Russia Ukraine viewpoints
27:00 Darshanas and Charvaks
33:00 Why is atheism so enraged?
36:25 Conversions to Christianity and Islam
40:20 Reading Hindu scriptures
43:40 Genetic diversity in India
46:25 Decoloniality
49:36 Subjectivism and Relativism
52:03 Orientalism and Occidentlism
56:02 Nuance in Discourse
58:14 Annihilation of Casteism
1:02:35 Indian Wokeism Is Irrational
1:08:01 Psuedo Westerners
1:11:44 Empathy for Netizens
1:15:46 Inquisitive Questioning
1:18:52 Don't Get Married to Your Ideas
1:26:40 Ending

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