Ep 65. Godi Media vs Teachers & Apolitical Gen-Z

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Like, I'm gonna open today's show with this news. Did you know that AI centers are using robot dogs? You heard me right, robot dogs to guard AI centers. The AI centers are saying they don't want human security. They want robot dogs. And this is a news which is like, you know, it's like one of those like fun fluff pieces which kind of come out every now and then. And that kind of makes you think about where life is. And so yeah, apparently these things cost about $3 like US dollars. And, you know, companies are investing in them. And this is news. What is not known and not part of the news is whether any of these robot dogs are known as Orion. But like, we'll never know. No universities were harmed in this joke. I'm just like saying. We don't know what the names of these robot dogs are. Like chances are if you are hiring like 10, 15 like these machines, you might name them something. It's not like, like even if you have printers in the house, like, you know, most people don't have like like 10 printers in the house. You just have the one. But if you had like multiple printers, you will say, you know, Yewala printer, Wala printer, HP Wala printer, XYZ Wala printer. So maybe, maybe these robot dogs have names. And Orion is a name. Why not? Who knows about these things? But like speaking of universities and names, it's an interesting kind of, you know, Mahal which is developing in India. Students are getting agitated. Can you imagine that after like successfully for the last 15 years, 20 years, actually even longer. This didn't begin with more. This has been a long standing thing which has been going on. After like completely de-radicalizing students, you know, by saying that campus politics is bad. The whole promise of private universities was that, you know, in our universities, maybe we don't do politics. And a lot of these founders, I remember a couple of years ago, Ashoka University, one of the founders. He went on Twitter or somewhere and he said that, you know, university students should not be doing politics because Ashoka universities were, I think, students. They were, some of them are quite progressive, actually. They're kind of trying to raise important issues. In fact, I remember there was this protest in Ashoka some years ago where the students were trying to lobby the university to introduce SCST reservations. I had actually, that time this, this podcast, I featured them on this podcast. That time this podcast was still an audio only one, I think. And I'd like actually done an episode. You can go back and check it on the Spotify. It may not be on the YouTube. And it done an episode. And it was a very interesting episode. There is a, like I always make fun of the Sony Perth universities in the Ashoka and XYZ. But like there is, beyond the joke, there is actually a cohort of some very interesting students that who are trying to do interesting things. And it is exactly that kind of student that many of the, you know, universities and colleges in India have sort of criminalized, almost criminalized and said, like this is bad behavior. In fact, one of the first achievements of this current Modi regime was that they made J&U, almost like a Gali, you know, because the first major student protests, actually even before J&U, it was the FTII in Pune, where the students had come out and protested against BJP, installing Gajendra Chohan, if I'm not mistaken, the guy who played that role in Mahabharat, as their main guy and the students protested. And it was like a very big ran for like weeks and weeks and weeks. And it made national headlines. And that was a peak Modi wave. And the first people stood up against that was actually the students in Pune, was film students in that time. I remember the times of India and all. I have that clipping because of the way they framed it, you know, and what they did is they said, I think the times of India headline, it said, the government spends two times on a FTII or film student than it does on an engineering student or a IIM student. So basically the way they tried to show that these students are ungrateful. They do stupid things like make films and shit, right? On government subsidy. And the government is spending so much money on these film students. And they're still being spoiled. Whereas the money that is being spent on a single FTII student is two times that of an IIM guy or three times that. And those are people who are doing IIT engineering in IIM. What that article did not specify is that there is like 40 students in a program in FTII. And like there are 19, 20 IIMs, 23 IITs or something like that, and they take in admission by the hundreds and the thousand. And so the total amount of money that the government spends on IIT students is like enormously high. But of course, that's not how the newspaper framed it. >> Winning never sounded so good. What would you do if you won big at Crown Coins Casino? Real people win real prices every single day. >> Hi, this is Michael from Georgia, I won 40K and finally renovated my home. >> Visit crowncoins.com. You may win up to 10,000 sweepscoins. Crowncoins.com. That's C-R-O-W-N coins.com. No, purchase needed. So about for new users on Void, we're prohibited by law. 18 plus terms and conditions apply. >> Crowncoins fishing home. >> They said like look, look at these students. These film students, they are protesting. And that's also the thing that they try to do with liberal arts students. And you know, look at these Ashoka university types, JNU types and all these humanities, social science students. They only want to do protest. Well, well, humanities students are not protesting right now. It is certainly not the film students who are hitting the streets. It is actually literally school children. These are CBSC exam kids are like, you know, out on the roads and you know, the neat exam is not for entrance into film school. And you know, this whole idea that engineering and management and medical students are the serious kinds and they don't do politics, where politics has found them. And that is very interesting. And with all of these, you know, exam leaks, CBSC, C-U-E-T got like, you know, granted to some trouble. Like because of all of these things, there's like a bit of a pressure building on the government ecosystem. I saw even very hardcore right wing, you know, BJP IT cell type people. They are also sort of like, you know, abusing the government. It also I think has something to do with the fact that many of these BJP IT cell people, they kind of hate the education minister from the whole UGC episode. When the UGC guidelines kind of included OBC along with SCST as like a protected category and all these apocast some of our BJP IT cell sanghi ecosystem, they tried to do like organized protests around it. So for them, the education minister has been a problem since then. There's no love lost between them and this guy. And he's I think from a Kunbi caste, he's OBC himself. So like, there is their layers to that hate also. So when his ministry is doing terribly at a point like this, of course, they're going to kind of, you know, also throw him under the bus. But India's not had decent education ministers for a while, right, but it just took exam leaks and so many of them. I think there are, I was reading this thing I mentioned in the previous episode also about like 8990 exam leaks more than that in the last 10 years. And the second time neat, there has been an issue and all sorts of absurd solutions are now being put forward. Indian Air Force will be brought in. What's next? We will have the Indian Army delivering Zomato food packets or something like that to students and Indian Army is doing this. Guys, I want you to think about this a little bit. One of the big differentiations between India and Pakistan, politically speaking, political systems has been that we have been successful in keeping the armed forces out of the domain of politics. And to be fair, the Indian armed forces have also kind of not demonstrated, at least publicly that we know of, I think even otherwise, they have not demonstrated it desire to get mixed up in domestic politics. So this idea of trying to bring army and armed forces, in this case, Air Force into the domains of civilian administration, this sets, like this could set a very bad precedent. And this is not a direction, a South Asian government should be going by the way, just look at Sri Lanka, look at Bangladesh, forget like, of course, Pakistan, but even in a country like Nepal, like all our neighbors within South Asia, this blurring the line between civilian administration and military is has bad precedent in South Asia. I'm not implying anything like that in India, but like every forest fire starts with a spark somewhere. So sometimes what happens is, you know, there's a butterfly effect, like you're trying to solve one thing and you're completely focused on one thing, but you open the door to something and at that time, something else, you open the door to it. And at that point of time, it's not a very big deal and like nobody's thinking that this could become a problem. But like, you keep ignoring it and you leave it and you take it for granted. And who knows, maybe down the road, because you left the door open, it creates kind of a knock on but a fly effect. I'm just saying, South Asia record is not good. So this whole idea that we will take the armed forces and I think I was on Anurag's show discourse where I was making this point. I don't know if they kept it in the show or not. But what if the paper leaks again, because there is no guarantee that the paper leak has nothing to do with the paper transportation, which is the funniest part. Paper leaks happened because there is a 60,000 crore education coaching industry entrance exam coaching industry in this country, which means you have created a massive black market of really desperate people. Many of these desperate people, the average exam taker doesn't have the money or the resources. But since lacks and lacks and lacks of people are writing these exams, there will be by law of averages, percentages, enough people with enough money and enough connections to and enough desperation to see how they can like, you know, give themselves better odds and and the people handling these papers and all of those things. It's not like they are making a lot of money and they are living great lives and who knows what whether somebody has debt, who knows what crisis they're in, what their lives problems are. Like you've created like a, I mean there are ways you can tighten the process, yes. But fundamentally the issue that we have to solve is we cannot create such a massive desperate black market for these exams and which is what we've done. So now bringing in the air force to try and, you know, solve the like, it's not like question papers were being sent through, you know, a truck and one question paper flew out of the back and somebody found it on the road and then went and sold it. That's not how it happened. And if that's how the education ministry thinks it happened, then God help us all. But yeah, like because of all of these things, pressures are building and our lovely Goody media anchors, like what a tough job it has become for them. Like see for years, they control the capacity of building the public narrative. For years, the only people opposing the sort of like Modi media, you know, let me not call it Goody media. I mean, because, but yeah, Goody media, Modi media, whatever you want to call it. For years, they basically the only people opposing them were opposition, people from the left, antica, stumbit, courage, activists, sub progressive people, XYZ. None of these are actually their constituency. Their constituency was savanna, wealthy, urban. And if you think like urban English speaking, people do not listen to Goody media, then you're wrong. A lot of them absolutely do listen to it. But also in small towns, you know, these Jaminder, Takeidar, you know, whatever crowd, you know, medium sized landowners and like their families and working professionals, people doing, you know, all sorts of different jobs. And who are broadly sympathetic of the Modi thing? And who are broadly happy with a lot of these ideas? So they were, they were the core watchers of this and they did not really have a problem with the way this Modi media, Goody media was operating. Till now, things have become so bad that even these people are beginning to sort of push back. And that is really creating a crisis. Anjana Om Kashyap famously like has decided that she wants to fight YouTube teachers. As somebody who has also taught on YouTube, like not at that scale, I've done, I've done sessions for Nalanda Akadmi Varda, digital Nalanda, I used to do like history modules for them. And I used to do these like long workshops on social sciences and social movements and you know what is post-structuralism XYZ. And every now and then I get like message from like a listener of this show, like, Oh, I found you in on there and like I've been listening to those videos and that's how I got on to the podcast. There's no danger of people listening to this podcast and then going and actually listening to, you know, actual classes because nobody who listens to this podcast or podcasts, you know, contemporary podcasts in general is interested in learning anything new. That's why you're listening to a podcast because you don't want to, you don't want to use critical faculty, you don't want to read a book, you don't want to learn about, you know, deeper philosophical movements like why would you want to, you know, learn about Foucault or something like that from reading like three of his books when you can actually just YouTube five minute explainer videos and think you know it. So I've dealt with this problem and sorry for like just casually roasting my own audience, but that's what we do on this show a little bit. So you get get with the program. Um. Winning never sounded so good. What would you do if you want big at Crown Coins Casino? Hi, this is Michael from Georgia, I won 40k and finally renovated my home. Visit crowncoins.com, sign up in seconds, enter code crown and get a free lucky real bonus. You may win at the 10,000 sweeps coins. Crowncoins.com that's C-R-O-W-N coins.com, no purchase needed. So bell for new users on Void were riveted by law 18 plus terms and addition supply. So yeah, like as somebody who has done classes on YouTube, I can tell you it's an extremely difficult job and the people who do it professionally, all these big teachers like big like like people have built entire brands and businesses out of out of this operation. Like their job is not easy. This much I can tell you because here's here's an interesting thing. People don't understand about online YouTube, YouTube classes, especially. There's something very fascinating about a physical class. A physical class is like an in class performance, right? You can go to class, you workshop the way you deliver lectures, over the years teachers become good at doing certain topics. You get the audience reactions. You can see the faces of the student, which is a very big thing. You can see the energy. You can see whether your joke is landing, whether the point you're making they're able to understand or not, you can workshop it. I used to say this like when I was doing my live tour of like at stand up and use comedy, comedians would come up and ask me like, okay, have you been performing comedy or like have you been performing life. And I was like, yeah, I do like life, five days a week for the last like eight, ten years, because every week, if you go to class and you're trying to like, you know, and I don't use PPTs, I speak orality. I think that's where my capacity to keep talking and like just keep riffing and rambling and renting comes from. It's from all those years and years of teaching like, you know, in class, the, the, but at least, but I will say it is still easier to do that because I can see the faces. I can read the room. I can figure out, okay, here are two people in my class. They're not really getting it or they're like nodding the mood to kind of listen to me, but these are students, Kehora, I can read the dynamic and I can alter my delivery and content accordingly. You can do none of that on YouTube, which means you have to be exceptionally good. You have to have your energy very high. All the good ones, I'm sure there are like lots of people who are not very successful, but I'm saying the successful YouTube teachers who are teaching like lacks of students who are beginner that they are branching themselves, right? And have built a business out of it like you have to be, you always have to have your energy up, you have to have, you have to be incredibly charismatic. And remember, you have to be good at actually teaching the subject you're doing and these competitive exams are not easy to teach, you know, especially because the level and the kind of proficiency and the speed that these exams demand from the students who are also younger, they're younger, they're just coming out of school or whatever and they're not so, they're not so emotionally and developmentally like well put together, they're also learning, they're also forming. So you're dealing with a very like an audience which is also not like, which is also not, the students don't really yet at that stage understand what are their strengths, what are their weaknesses, you know, they get overwhelmed, they get bored, they lose attention, a lot of stuff can happen and all of this is happening online. So a good online YouTube teacher who's able to connect to like, you know, 50,000, 1,000 to like students is able to without being in the room, without looking at people like, yeah, like some of you, like I know there are some people who shoot these things with 30 people in the class, but it's not the 30 people in the class, like there are like 50,000 people who are going to watch it. So your reactions are to the people in the class, but like you're you're broadcasting to so many other people and I've done some of those things also where I'm teaching like 20 people in front of me, but the lecture is being broadcast or put online and I can tell you I struggled with it because at this point in time, should I focus on the students in front of me, should I focus on the people who are listening to me, if I try to keep talking and dressing this audience, which I can't see, but is watching me, then I'm losing the people in front of me. If I start focusing on what people in my second bench are doing and I start like because my teaching style is like, you know, I'll start talking to people, I'll start bantering with them. If I'm doing that with the people in front of me, it really doesn't translate very well online. It's a mess. My point in this entire digression is if you are a YouTube teacher who is doing entrance exam preparation for especially these IT or medical or you know, management sort of exams and you are successful enough to have built a brand, built a business and thousands, tens of thousands of people, lakhs of students are watching you. You are at a level of hard work understanding your craft and you have to be sincerely good at it, right, which is not what I can say for Anjanahum Kashaf because none of these people, like you look at the Modi media and you look at them and even their best supporters will not say that these people are journalists or they have this job because they're best in their field. Nobody will be like, yeah, they are the best anchors or journalists or editors. That's why they have that job. They have that job because they're willing to editorially push a line which is extremely convenient to the powers that be. That is a very different thing than being good at your job. The best journalists, the best editors are actually not in some of these big TV shows. They are actually in small niche platforms, online platforms. I've said this before, places like, you know, your news laundry or, you know, quint and, you know, the wire, XYZ. And many are freelancers, many are on Twitter, many do story by story and all of that. They are not literally the Anjanahum Kashafs of the world. And trust me, they don't want that job also because a good journalist, a good editor, you know, is not very interested in becoming a spokesperson for a ideological, political dispensation. That's not what it is. So Anjanahum Kashaf and all of people like that, they're not really the best in their job. They're not great journalists, but you can reasonably, I can reasonably confidently say, I can't speak for everybody, but I can reasonably confidently say that if you're an online YouTube teacher for these entrance exams, the students you're dealing with, the competitive nature of the exam, the format, its challenges and being successful and being able to deliver it at a high energy and charisma, you know, month after month, year after year, you are probably very good at what you do, right? And Anjanahum Kashaf basically accused these teachers of instigating the youth for protesting because like I said, pressures are building and because the pressure is building and like, you know, this is what comes out. And what has followed has been absolutely hilarious, you know, like cancer and all of these like different online teachers. They like, they took it very personally because again, if you're an online teacher and doing this kind of thing, you are by and large, not very interested in social media. You're not very interested in becoming like, I mean, there are exceptions and all, but by and large, whatever is visible of you outside on internet as a personality, is a very small fraction of the massive labor you're giving in your actual work and off screen with actual students and things like that. So these people took it very personally because one of the last things that is left sacred now in India is the idea that the coaching center teacher, not the university teacher, the coaching center teacher is trying to give a better future to lacks and lacks of youth in this country and they're doing it kind of selflessly. I mean, yeah, you get you get a salary and you get you make money and in some cases you make really good money, but you the money is a direct function of being really good at your job, right? Like Anjana Om Kashyap and like anchors and editors like her would also be making incredible money. I think there was a, it was Anjana Om Kashyap only. I could be wrong. They had shown on Twitter or somewhere, some clip I was seeing where like her house was being shown. Oh no, I think this was Rubika. I could be wrong. One of them, like they're basically the same ilk, same kind of people. And like their houses, their houses are palatial. Like so these all, you know, they're like, I would imagine these people live in massive houses. They made a lot of money, but they haven't made the money because they are great journalists or anchors. They have made money because by actually being bad at their core job, right? If they were good at their job, winning never sounded so good. At Crown Coins Casino, real people win real prices every single day. Hi, this is Michael from Dallas and I won 40K and finally renovated my home. CrownCoins.com. That's C-R-O-W and coins.com. No purchase needed. 18 plus terms and getitions applied. If they were good at their profession, let me say this, not job. If they were good at their profession, they would not have their job. So if Angelou Kashyap was good at her profession, she may not be having the job she does in Arjuna. Whereas if you are a YouTube entrance exam, whatever like teacher or you're putting your content out there and you're making a lot of money and all that, it is because your good at your profession. It is a kind of business you cannot make money if you're not good at your profession. It will catch up with you very quickly because the entrance exam student is an extremely desperate student. They're price sensitive, yes, but they're also skill sensitive. Like if you're not doing a good job, you may be very entertaining, but if you're not qualified in doing the doubts and all of that, well, they will leave you. If you are not able to motivate them, work with them, engage them and mentor them and through this exam or whatever, then they will leave you. They'll go with somebody who can actually do those things for them. So these people are actually good at what they're doing. And often here's the other thing. Many times, all these coaching center teachers, they are, you know, online coaching, YouTube coaching wherever they are not really coming from top universities, elite families, and they're not really like they haven't gone to. They're not the sons and daughters of Supreme Court advocates and judges and IS officers. They're all usually coming from a humble background, small town, who have just like sort of risen out of their pure charisma, who understand the cost of this opportunity and who are working really hard. So even though there is money involved, they're one of the last group of people who are trying to still squeeze out whatever they can from this, you know, sinking Indian growth story. They're still trying and desperately holding on, like don't lose hope, don't give into despair, work hard, crack your exam, change your life, right? And their own personal journeys come from one of those things. And the fact now, I started like 15 or even minutes ago by saying, these are not humanities or film students or political science students who are protesting. These are the exact kind of students and teachers and academics that you were told were serious that they are responsible. Be like them. These are those people who are coming out and protesting, right? And I think, you know, by taking on making this go the media versus teachers thing is it will not go well. And I think it's not just that I know new cycle shifts and like Ajthak on all these other channels, they'll move on very quickly in 10 days time. Like things will change, the FIFA World Cup is coming. Like something or the other will come up, you know, and it will change and maybe the war in Iran will, you know, wind up and you will and the day does by the way, you will see a flood of positive stories. Excuse me, a flood of positive stories. And maybe the price of petrol will come down a little bit. And then they will be praising the government and Modi, like they saw us through a difficult time and people were complaining, but you know, you know, this to tall and they got it done for us and all. So they will do all of that. So all of this new cycle will change and these things will be kind of moved aside. But the fact that they took on these teachers and all these laks of students are quietly listening to this whole thing play out, they will remember this. And that is that should alarm you if you're a BJP supporter, that should alarm you because what this controversy has done and what the people like on their own cash have done is they have just handed over the first major political betrayal, first major political first major political scar to an entire generation of young self identifying as a political but default BJP political people. So they have just told this entire new cohort who has been trained and groomed to become like, you know, future BJP, you know, supporters and all that have just handed them a huge sort of, like a sort of a bitter taste. And the new cycle will move on. This bitter taste will not go on. Speaking of the new cycle, I think I was just saying this on the paid tier episode that the the cockroach Janta party founder ABG Bipke, he's coming to India, he's announced that six June, he's going to come to India and he wants to lead a protest and at Jantar Mantar, if I'm not mistaken, and Sonam Vanchuk, the Ladakh climate activist who was on a big protest and then he was arrested, has said that he will join the protest so that this is becoming very, very interesting because it seems that and I was saying it on that show, I think Bipke, ABG Bipke, cockroach Janta party, he's basically a Mahatma party guy, he's worked with that ecosystem. Nothing wrong in that, like I don't, I have critique Mahatma party and I've done episodes on them before, but like I don't have an issue if someone follows them, right? Like he is an Amadmi party supporter that immediately like makes me, makes me not have my hopes high from whatever this is, but that's his politics and he's allowed to do it or whatever and I'm expecting like you know all these Amadmi party type people to kind of join in, Sonam Vanchuk is joining in, maybe we'll see more names, more civil society people, and you know it'll become interesting because I think I'm still of this and I hope I'm wrong, but I think what will happen is they'll come, they'll try to do this protest and they'll realize that the Gen Z is really not going to hit the streets, you're not going to suddenly get like 50,000 young people showing up for this protest, this is not that movement, that's not what's going to happen, they're going to go maybe 500-800 people will show up, they'll be people from ABVP and other like you know Bajrangal who'll try to like sneak and see who's there, try to disrupt it, media will immediately say that this is toolkit, this is foreign funded anti-national because this is right up their alley, this stuff they can handle, you know K.O look at all these people, they have come together and they are trying to like you know give India a bad name, these are the like you know they'll create that whole anti-national narrative, they they struggled with that with the current one because you can't do that with YouTube teachers and so yeah so that's going to happen and the new cycle will change and you'll see you'll see all of these things play out on predictable pathways, the reason why I'm so certain and again I'm happy to be proven wrong, like unlike unlike what many of you say like I don't get everything right on the show I've been wrong often and frequently and I'm happy to be wrong I don't mind, I learned things cultural discourses all about you know looking at things trying to see the pattern, getting it wrong sometimes, getting it right sometimes and so on, winning never sounded so good, what would you do if you want big at crown coins casino, real people win real prices every single day, hi this is Michael from Dallas and I won 40k and finally renovated my home, visit crowncoins.com, sign up in seconds, enter code crown and get a free lucky wheel bonus, you may win up to 10,000 sweeps coins, crowncoins.com that's c-r-o-w-n coins.com, no purchase needed, code valve for new users only, we're repeated by law 18 plus terms and conditions apply, but the reason why I'm fairly certain that the Gen C is not going to come out is I written this in my book, I was talking about this on the patreon episode also which is about the collapse of the citizen you know because in the early 2000s you had these sort of programs like you know teach India, teach for India and I go into depth there please go like please subscribe and listen to it if you want like a deeper insight, but in the in the gist of it is in the early 2000s there was a sort of naive optimism you know like you see movies like Randeba Santi and where you know there's that monologue no we will join the police, we'll join the bureaucracy, we'll fix India and you know all of that all these different movies and there was that the thing in the air that the elites had a stake and you see that disappearing now and the Gen C the youth which has come up now for them and I have written this in my book for them politics is cosplay right because they have been raised in homes and especially the elite Gen C right they've been raised in homes and neighborhoods and taught in institutions which are completely cut off and divorced by design by choice from the material reality of the world. So these are like sort of first world America, situated, you know privileged, well the kids who have, like who only move through India, like their bodies live in the zip code of India, but their minds and intellectuals and disabilities and aesthetics are somewhere else. And politics for them, like you know, that's why they see a Mamdani, they get very excited. You can be living in, you know Ahmedabad or Pune or Bombay and you get excited about Mamdani and you're in Bangalore because that's the kind of, because mentally you're in New Yorker. And so politics is cosplay for you. And you know, there is no kind of a deeper stake in what what what India is. And the moment you try, so sharing a meme is easy. Sharing a meme is easy, sharing a story is easy, doing signature campaigns, like you know, Memorandum literally cosplaying dressing up in costumes, like cockroaches or whatever, like going, doing graffiti, making out zines, like publishing, putting a pamphlet, creating a website and like, you know, things like that, discord server, like this is like very easy for them and this is what they want to do. But they're not going to step out. They're not going to put their bodies on online because on the line, on the line, not online. They're not going online. They're putting their bodies all the time. On the line, they're not going to hit the street because not because they're particularly scared and cowardly, which also is a factor. But because they don't have that much skin in the game, these are not people who are that connected to the idea of India. They want to leave India. They're not here. They're not participating in the citizenship of India or the act of nation building, what that constitutes. Politics is a form of EPL or IPL for them. They dress up in Arsenal in Chelsea, Gertzies in Barcelona, Gertzies and go to, you know, pubs and watch football games and then say, we won, we won today. We beat you. Who is this we? You're in fucking mallard, chill, chill. Okay, sit down. Like have some shame truly. Like that's where we are. But so yeah, that's that's a protest. And when this protest, the heat in this protest will become too much. And heat is already like getting to us in Delhi. Delhi, there's a major heat wave. Every temperatures are hitting above 40, 41, 42 degrees. They're all going to go to Himachal, which by the way is another piece of news that you should know. Apparently Himachal Pradesh, you know, got gridlocked. The road from Delhi to Himachal got gridlocked because I think in last week or something, like some 70,000, 72,000, you know, cars showed up in like seven hours or something. So there are traffic jams in Shimla. There are traffic jams up and down the mountains in Uttarakhand at the at the Charatham. Like one of the the third theatres I forget now. Apparently there's a 25 kilometer. There's a 25 kilometer jam, which is there. And like I was seeing these clips about it on Twitter. Like they've completely gridlocked these things. Like this idea that the mountains are a sort of an aesthetic getaway from the cities you have made unlivable, right? Has ruined the mountains. You cannot any longer go to the mountains and get a sense of peace. Like you couldn't go to Shimla like even like 10 years ago 'cause it was too crowded. But now you can't even go to like smaller areas because everything is like the access points to those places is ruined, you know? And it's been done with such careless, reckless, non-imagination, non-visionary approach that entire states have been ruled. Like internal tourism in India has been wrecked. Like Goa has a serious tourist problem. Mountains you go, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, serious tourist problem, right? So a lot of the wealthy tourists who can afford it, they're just getting on a plane and they're going to Sri Lanka and Vietnam and they're doing Garbha there and like people are getting angry at them and all of those things are happening. But my point fundamentally is that India is falling like breaking apart under its own consumer aspirations because the people who are supposed to build the infrastructure to hold it in together have really been terrible at their jobs, have not had the vision and have profited themselves made enormous, enormous personal fortunes and now these things are completely almost useless in context and like. So yeah, so the mountains are screwed, gridlock in the hills, there's apparently a protest in speaking of Uttarakhand. In Devpraya or somewhere like there was a protest like very stark image of an entire village came out with torches, they lit a fire on a stick and they came out because they were protesting 'cause they don't have clean drinking water and basic facilities were very long. So I was like, I saw that and all this is just one village in one district of Uttarakhand. And I was like, oh, so this is what's going to happen. As the years go on, as the crisis intensifies as things become more and more terrible, you're going to see this sort of visually stark protest, people coming out with fire and people coming out and doing dramatic things and people coming out in large numbers and doing very visceral, aggressive protests. They will not be there, they will not be the ones who will be wearing cockroach costumes that much I can tell you. And just to round this up like, you know, all the people who's who, because of whom these things are falling apart, well, it's fun to know that sometimes even they don't get everything that they want. Like the funniest news story that I saw this week and for once it's not about the Ambani's, it is actually about the other friend of the show, Danny Bai, a Johnny's on the news, there was apparently Anil Agarwal of Vedanta has taken a Dhani to Supreme Court because they are both trying to fight, they're both trying to buy the assets of this other industrialist called JP who owns like the F1, you know, track near Galgotia's university, they're both F1 track and greater noida, many properties and I think they have some factories. But JP is like, I think they're bankrupt now, so their assets are up for sale and both are Dhani and Vedanta want to buy it because, especially that F1 racetrack and like real estate, it is sitting right on the road which goes to the Jever airport, right? So that will become some of the most expensive real estate. It already is but it will become some of the most expensive real estate in the coming 10, 15 years as noida, like Gritanoida sort of develops down that axis towards the airport. And you can see the fight is intense but like it's funny to me, like how, let me be careful how it raises. Do not Google the following keywords together, right? I'm just warning you, don't do it. Vedanta, Zambia river, poison, okay? Do not Google it. Also, similarly, do not Google, do not Google Adani, Cole, Great Barrier Reef Australia. So these people who have allegedly, you know, destroyed ecosystems across the planet on different continents are fighting for pieces of land in Gritanoida and then one guy who allegedly has shady business dealings in some African countries. And I'm not talking about either of these two people's alleged shady behavior inside India because inside India, so is like, you know, local stuff, right? But these are the international dimensions. And they are fighting and they are going to go so it shows that you can poison a river or two and you can still not have what you want. Like I'm seeing on Twitter, I think he was on it, while he was showing off his London home. Apparently he has his home where like there's a there's a banquet room or a conference room and he presses the button and the floor goes off and like the swimming pool comes out. That guy does like has to go to court and cry for justice. Like that is interesting to me that you can you can have a banquet room. Like you know this shakal there's a movie called shan. You know in was it shan or was it like Mr. India? I think both where they had this like a floor and you press a button and then the the flooring goes off. I think in Mr. India there was an acid pool where he had like it was just just for wives. Like Mr. India for the younger audience was this film where like there is a iconic villain called Mogamo. He has a layer and shit and like there is like he's showing off how bad as he is. So he has a pool of us of acid and which is covered. So he presses a button and then the floor goes and the acid pool is revealed and then he calls to of his henchmen. And he says jump into it and they say they don't ask him a question. They say hey, Mogamo and jump into the acid and instantly like you know skeletons. So that's supposed to show you like you know how you know scary he is or how much power he has and all of that. So this idea that like you know a normal looking floor will get converted into a pool or a acid pool. We don't know what actually is there like you know I'm hoping there is water in that pool in the London house and not like acid like Mogamo. But I'm just saying you can allegedly no no correlation to any real living person or company. Just hypothetically talking you can allegedly poison a river to amass so much wealth destroy like you know indigenous lands and forests and mining rights and like you know for your for your mining businesses in India. Create so much wealth that you go to I don't know global city like you know London and create a house where you press a button and like the floor goes and like there is a pool inside it. Hopefully not of acid and you can do all of that and you can still not get what you want. Now I understand Anantambani a little bit he's he's not playing the game. He's not interested in the both F1 circuit real estate little pools of acid. He's not interested in that. He wants to feed Kichadi to Hathis Elephants. He wants to feed Kichadi to elephants and he wants to sell you ice cream you know Vantara creamery. Friend of the show like you know everybody should get Vantara ice cream. This is I'm not paid to say this but I will do it for free. Please you know if any of you do have Vantara ice cream please send me a picture on Instagram. Do like tag me I would love to love to share it and I would love to listen to your experience with the ice cream because that's not just an ice cream. That is a billionaire telling you that he has found peace like he is not interested in poisoning river systems across the world. He's not interested in opening coal mines which threaten one of the great natural wonders of of the marine ecosystem. He's not interested in all of that and he's not interested in going to the court and fighting like tedious legal battle about a piece of land whose property will become like you know really expensive because there's an airport coming up XYZ. He is enlightenment himself he wants to sit in a corner he wants to sell you ice cream. What a beautiful soul. Bye bye. 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