Sudhanshu Kaushik is an international youth activist known for founding Young India Foundation and his work on youth participation and author of The Future Is Ours, forthcoming by Amazon-Westland. Kaushik works on seeking political representation for young people and believes he has created a youth rights movement in India. You can also watch this episode on Youtube.com/pgradio
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Visakan Veerswamy is a serial tweeter and the author of the book ‘friendly ambitious nerd’. Visa’s twitter is probably one of the most interesting pieces of organic online literature I've seen in a while. On this episode, I talk to Visa about what is happening inside his unique adoption of the virtual world. You can also watch this episode on Youtube.com/pgradio
Jun 07, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Prakhar inquires about how humans evolved language from the world renowned animal language researcher and psychologist Herbert Terrace. Herbert S. Terrace (born 29 November 1936) is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. His work covers a broad set of research interests that include behaviorism, animal cognition, ape language and the evolution of language. He is the author of Nim (1979) and Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can (2019). Terrace has mad...
May 31, 2020•59 min
Santu Misra is the director and producer for Kusha Kapila (instagram/@kushakapila) and Dolly Singh (instagram/@dollysingh). He's worked with iDiva and MensXP at Time Internet. In this episode Prakhar and Santu talk about the phenomenon of social media from being this demonized, attention diluting tool of younger generations and how it is becoming to be accepted in our society. You can also watch this episode on Youtube/pgradio
May 24, 2020•53 min
Sumit Kumar is the father of Bakarmax. He has written for Savita Bhabhi and is the author of The Itch You Can’t Scratch, Kashmir Ki Kahani and Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari. Prakhar and Sumit talk about the unique story-telling nature of comic books which has an element of absurdism embedded in it. They also talk about their childhood relations with comic books, and the current state of comic books and comic book artists in India. You can also watch this episode on Youtube/PGRadio
May 18, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Abhinandan is the CEO and co-founder of the alt media company 'Newslaundry'. Abhinandan and Prakhar talk about the relationship between the media and the public before and after 2014. Abhinandan comments on the Arnab Goswami situation, barely comments on Anand Ranganathan, and personally opines on Scoopwhoop and Samdhish Bhatia style journalism. There are jokes exchanged too. For real. You can also watch this episode on Youtube. Search for PG Radio
May 10, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Dhruv is a part journalist and part activist and a full-time YouTuber. Dhruv is famous for his political and social commentary. He is quickly becoming the face of the alternative media movement in India Annotations: @1.45 Dhruv Rathee's inception @5.31 Risks involved with the content that Dhruv produces @7.40 Communicating that Dhruv's research methods are as objective as they can be @11.09 "The interpretation problem" (JNU as reference) @15.4 Dhruv's history with AAP @17.35 Should we criticize ...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Prakhar inquires about how humans evolved language from the world renowned animal language researcher and psychologist Herbert Terrace. Herbert, who has been instrumental in the quest for finding the answer to this question, talks about his research, its implications, the evolutionary theory of words and grammar, the mystery behind where grammar evolved and how words are formed and what that says about our evolutionary history. Connect with us online: pgradio.com @pgradio.live on Instagram
Apr 21, 2020•52 min
Prakhar and David talk about his academic enterprise into the esoteric, his course reincarnation and technology, psychedelics, meditations, quantum physics, philosophy , educational philosophy and religion.
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Prakhar and Vimoh take a very rational stance on the importance of stories, the distortion of narratives, politics, BJP, Religion, Hinduism, Vimoh's career as a comic book artist and writer.
Apr 05, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This is the audio from my live session on YouTube dated March 28 2020.
Apr 02, 2020•48 min
In this episode, John and Prakhar discuss the economic implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) 2020 pandemic. John C. Mutter is a professor at Columbia University with appointments in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and in the School of International and Public Affairs. He was previously deputy director of the Earth Institute. Mutter co-teaches Disasters and Development and Science for Sustainable Development which is a core course in the undergraduate major in sustainable ...
Mar 22, 2020•1 hr 7 min
This is an episode from my latest podcast series STOA. The STOA is our attempt to experiment with polarised conversations and fix the non overlap. In this episode, we did a Red Team/Blue Team Steelman. Participants are assigned a team and then given a position to defend Halfway through, the teams flip their positions. Listen to Prakhar, Perry, Jonathan and Alex discuss the utility of Religion.
Mar 15, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Abhinav and Prakhar discuss some of Abhinav's playful yet radical ideas about the nature of reality and physics. Prakhar and Abhinav talk about space, nihilism, evolution, technology and godmen. Abhinav Chhikara is a UI/UX designer and ex-co-founder of Lisn, founder of booklets.io and the Ex- Head of Design at Unacademy. Abhinav is also the co-author of the best selling book 'Pyjama Profit' and a seed investor in 'Avalon Meta'.
Mar 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Sam and Sparsh, two of the spearheads of Project Dastaan, talk about their incredible story in starting this project, their intent to embed the lost narratives from partition into the history and memory of people, the historical impact of partition in South Asia and the question of identity that arises from it.
Feb 28, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Ashish and Prakhar speak about the Hindu narrative in the politics of India, its disfigurements, the mini-renaissance of Hindu identity in politics, the sabrimala, the citizenship amendment act, intellectual imperialism and Kashmir
Feb 22, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Prakhar picks Abhinandan's mind on the citizenship debate in India, the dynamics of the political scenario, the phenomenon of fake news, its consequences and the future of digital media.
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Sattvik and Prakhar talk about listicles, testicles, content business, Samdhish Bhatia, Scoopwhoop Unscripted, the history of his company, online media business, politics, meditation, parties and his plans to dominate this game in the future.
Feb 08, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Manoli Lagos (@thelivingfuel) is a fitness professional and entrepreneur based out of New York City. Manoli Lagos specializes in a Marie Kondo form of fitness and wellness education where trains extremely busy people in their fitness philosophy and sculpts their regimen to achieve custom goals.
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Ateller is an Israeli musician, DJ and drummer. Avishai (Ateller) stared off playing the drums, went on to mix music and then finally write and produce. Ateller has one of the widest ranging discographies I have seen on a professional musician. Ateller borrows his music from the depths of meditation and self awareness.
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 16 min
This is an extract from a private conversation between Prakhar and Anupam Kher. Anupam Kher talks about his understanding of life, what is work ethic is, where it comes from and his artistic process.
Dec 08, 2019•7 min
Vivek talks about his new project- Kashmir Files, his on going tour- Kashmir Unreported, his filmography, India's politics, the importance of art, his book, 'urban naxals', freedom of speech, marijuana and sex education
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 28 min
Prakhar talks about his psychological concept of The Gamblers Mind, how the betting occurs and how desire plays out in our betting process. Through an example of philosophical and artistic figures and their writing styles, Prakhar delineates how our choices are formed and how desire influences them.
Dec 01, 2019•8 min
Adam and Prakhar talk about the psychology behind death, uncertainty, dreams, childhood experiences, psychopathology and meaning.
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Prakhar talks about his psycho-philosophical concept of the two voices in your head and how you must interact with them using an example of a MMA fighter. Prakhar borrows from his life, evolutionary theory, philosophy and psychology to make a case for the best way to conceptualize the different modules of your psyche.
Nov 22, 2019•11 min
Prakhar and Varun talk about the Indian Millennial and the systems that work against the flourishing of the millennial individual. Prakhar and Varun cover topics from the education system, generational friction and the entrepreneurial landscape.
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Prakhar sits down with Joseph LeDoux, a global authority on the neuroscience of consciousness, fear circuit, anxiety and emotions, to talk about his research, the experience of consciousness and the concept of fear.
Nov 08, 2019•52 min
Sirhud and Prakhar talk about masculinity in India, the social and psychological reasons for distorted masculinity, fitness culture, Sirhud's personal journey, his mentorship program, his social network wesbite, his youtube fame and plans for his future. Sirhud is a masculinity coach, entrepreneur and media personality from Pune, India. Youtube Hindi- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWS1rR6bWq_v5wNkzpg-YHA Youtube English- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkEGf5hzm-mMxGMLvthY2Jw Ted Talk- https...
Oct 29, 2019•1 hr 31 min
Prakhar is joined by Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi, the co-creators of the docu-film The Rise of Jordan Peterson, and Parvir 'Perry' Sidhu, the founder president of Colloquia. Patricia and Maziar are the cofounders of Holding Space Films in Canada and are currently touring with the film screening it across the world. Prakhar, Perry, Maz and Patricia talk about Peterson's influence on their work, the culture wars of our times, the film making process, the interaction of art and activism a...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Roy is a high energy particle physicist currently involved with the ATLAS project at CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. He has also been part of the T2K project in Japan and is current pursuing graduate work in high energy physics at Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Previously, Roy has studied at Imperial College of London. Roy and Prakhar talk about CERN LHC, High energy physics, quantum physics and cosmology.
Oct 14, 2019•1 hr 25 min