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The Prakhar Gupta Xperience

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Formerly - PG Radio Now, The Prakhar Gupta Xperience (PGX) – The Most Entertaining and Intellectual Conversations. My mission is simple: To create a raw, thought-provoking dialogue that brings deeper meaning to everyday conversation & to explore ideas that expand mind, challenge assumptions and push boundaries. No scripts. No agendas. Just genuine exploration of ideas. Join a community of thinkers, dreamers, and builders who refuse to settle for surface-level conversations. The journey continues. The experience evolves. This is PGX.
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Episodes

#70- The Divide We Refuse To See w/ Sudhanshu Kaushik

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, 20201 hr 20 min

Ep#69- Taking Twitter Seriously w/ Visakan Veerasamy

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, 20201 hr 35 min

Ep#68- The Evolution of Language w/ Prof. Herbert Terrace

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, 202059 min

#67- The World of Social Media Content w/ Santu Misra

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, 202053 min

#66- The Fantastic World of Comic Book Realities w/ Bakarmax

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, 20201 hr 14 min

#65- Arnab Goswami & The New Media w/ Abhinandan Sekhri

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, 20201 hr 17 min

#64- The Death of Legacy Media w/ Dhruv Rathee

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, 20201 hr 3 min

#63- Asking 'How exactly did Language Evolve?' w/ Herbert Terrace

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, 202052 min

#59- John Mutter - Economic legacy of coronavirus

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, 20201 hr 7 min

#58- STOA- The Utility of Religion

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, 20201 hr 26 min

#57- 'Space is fake'- an alt reality w/ Abhinav Chhikara

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, 20201 hr 2 min

#56- Returning to the Partition w/ Project Dastaan

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, 20201 hr 4 min

#55- The Political Hindu with Ashish Dhar of Upword

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, 20201 hr 13 min

#53- Scoopwhoop and The Empire of Content w/ Sattvik Mishra

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, 20201 hr 7 min

#52- The Busy Man's Guide to Health & Fitness w/ Manoli Lagos

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, 20201 hr 26 min

#51- Meditative Music w/ Ateller

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, 20191 hr 16 min

#50- Kashmir and Bollywood w/ Vivek Agnihotri

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, 20191 hr 28 min

PG Shorts #2- The Gamblers Mind and Desire

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, 20198 min

PG Shorts #1- The Two Voices in your Head

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, 201911 min

#47- Decoding the Indian Millennial w/ Varun Mayya

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, 20191 hr 17 min

#45- Emotions and Consciousness w/ Joseph LeDoux

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, 201952 min

#44- Indian Masculinities w/ Sirhud Kalra

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, 20191 hr 31 min

#43- The Rise of Jordan Peterson ft. Colloquia

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, 20191 hr 11 min

#42- Masterclass in High Physics w/ Roy Brener

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, 20191 hr 25 min
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