Mind your Buffalo

Mind your Buffalo

Ambedkarite professor/researcher rants a lot about the social life & absurdities in India. Is occassionally funny but mostly mediocre.

Episodes

Ep 52. Collective Memory Failure

June 21, 2025 • 65 mins
Iran-Israel War, RCB wins IPL, India-Pak drone wars, Kannada language pride, Justice Yashwant Verma, Gaza, Ukraine, Daddy SRK's fit, Air India Crash, Thala forever, Manipur, Govt policy on AC temperature, Great Nicobar island, Anant 'Dada' Ambani, to hot mayor Mamdani.

There is too much.
There is collective memory fatigue.
There is collective memory failure.
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Ep 51. Counting Castes: Census & Savarna Anxieties (w. Sumit Samos)

May 16, 2025 • 59 mins
Caste census announcement is probably one of the biggest policy interventions in independent India-- now that the fog of war is lifting, the incredibly talented Sumit Samos breaks it down for us. Also breaking a few savarna academic egos along the way for fun.

PS. Apologies for the bad network & technical difficulties. This show has no budget for better production levels.
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Link to Sumit & Arjun's article on...
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Ep 50. Meet the Savarnas (Book Preview)

May 4, 2025 • 53 mins
It is episode 50 of the show. That is a staggering number of hours of hearing mostly me talk to myself. The perfect way to commemorate this milestone is to hear me talk about my book. 'Meet The Savarnas'-- now out for pre-order on Amazon.

Link: https://www.amazon.in/Meet-Savarnas-Millennials-Mediocrity-Everything/dp/0143465716/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EUL6NB7KQNVM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7rSSA2N3Xc2XLynJOOsPHXl1x16tkYmYEGpRqXuUFrA.aFdYUpplisam...
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Ep 49. Reservation in Private Universities

April 16, 2025 • 85 mins
This needs to be said. Caste-based reservation in Indian private universities & higher education institutes is the need of the hour. This is a deep dive on the political economy of higher education & how it intersects with electoral funding of parties, policy-agenda-setting and caste gatekeeping.
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Ep 48. Language, Nation & Delimitation

March 24, 2025 • 57 mins
Nations, around the world often tend split and fall apart. One of the major reasons for countries breaking is language & ethnic/cultural identities (which circle back to language). East & West Pakistan split over language. India seems to be developing a North-South divide. 

Often the seeds of a split are buried years/decades before it actually happens. We may be dangerously flirting with one such moment no. It is not too lat...
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Ep 47. Under Centuries of Dust: Buddha & Mahabodhi (w. Mangesh Dahiwale)

March 8, 2025 • 63 mins
As the Mahabodhi agitation gains momentum in Gaya, Bihar-- we talk to Mangesh Dahiwale, one of the most important Ambedkarite scholars of history Buddhish history and culture. He breaks down for us the historical & civilizational context of Buddha & his Dhamma. The current agitation needs to be seen historically & sociologically, and not as a one-off event. 

A true masterclass in Buddhist epistemology!
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Ep 46. The End of the AAP Era

February 9, 2025 • 54 mins
AAP didnt just lose the Delhi elections-- it also brought to close an era (which began in the mid 2000s) where liberal elite savarns had a fantasy that they could politically & economically bring India to greatness. Well that dream is over. Swades, that fantasy of the educated savarnas that they could fix India IF they applied themselves & got hands dirty-- typified most by none other than Kejriwal-- that fantasy also died ...
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Ep 45. Post-Bahujan: Future of Dalit Assertion (w. Dr Rahul Sonpimple)

February 3, 2025 • 106 mins
An absolute masterclass by Dr Rahul Sonpimple~ diagnosis of the crossroads where the anti-caste movement finds itself. Babasaheb's name is everywhere, but Ambedkarite parties at their weakest. What happens to the movement? Where does it go? What questions we need to ask? 

In this Post-Bahujan Era-- what is the future of Dalit assertion & identity?
A must-watch, agenda-setting episode!
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Ep 44. Caste, Law & the University (w. Adv Disha Waderkar)

January 16, 2025 • 76 mins
Student suicides in top educational institutions have been peaking, there is rampant casteism across Indian universities. Against this backdrop we talk to Advocate Disha Wadekar who moved the Supreme Court on behalf of the mothers of the Dr Payal Tadvi & brother Rohith Vemula. Her interventioned resulted in the Supreme Court asking for data on caste discrimination on Indian campuses. 

What this means for SC ST OBC students in In...
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Ep 43. New Year, New India- Grow up or Go Crazy

January 6, 2025 • 67 mins
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 pretending Vir Das is talented/hot/funny. We cannot. We must not.

High time children! Grow up OR grow crazier. Lean into the dark side. Be demented, be unhinged. Be interesting. Don't be like Vir Das.
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Ep 42. End of the Soft (savarna) Elite Era

December 18, 2024 • 62 mins
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 irrelevant.
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Ep 41. Sad, Singles, Savarna Diwali

October 31, 2024 • 57 mins
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 return home from Sonepat colleges to take selfies in ethnic wear with their bigoted, fascist-minded parents ~and all this playing out to the tune of 'Chaiyaa Chaiyaa' in the background. Truly a blessed time!
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Ep 40. Oldplay, Ladoos & Overwork Deaths

September 29, 2024 • 48 mins
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. 
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Ep 39. Pure Veg Social Breakdown

September 5, 2024 • 65 mins
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 based on history-- in the middle of this social breakdown, your therapist asks you to ground yourself by touching grass.

Welcome to hell!
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Ep 38. Creamy Castes

August 3, 2024 • 86 mins
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 subcategorizing & privilege.
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Ep 37. The Trumpire Strikes Back

July 23, 2024 • 85 mins
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 down Trump's rise, Biden's descent, Kamala aunty stepping up.
Is this the collapse into 'big' evil or have we seen that already under smoother (war) criminals like Obama, Clinton & Bush.
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Ep 36. Who broke our cities?

June 30, 2024 • 56 mins
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!
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Ep 35. Indian Education: Everything is Broken

June 20, 2024 • 94 mins
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 SC/ST overseas scholarship policies, to everything.. its all broken.

Fixing the Indian education system is nobody's priority. 
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Ep 34. Voting for Thrones (Voting Day Special)

June 4, 2024 • 90 mins
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 & Ambedkarite leaders like Azad in era of "savarna social justice politics" & potential future of Modi-Shah & BJP.
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Ep 33. The ripped social fabric of small-town India (w. Annie Zaidi)

May 26, 2024 • 85 mins
as Lok Sabha elections wind down, amid talk of seat numbers & voter percentages, we try to look at the softer idea of social fabric & civility which has broken down across small-towns, especially in north India. 


Annie Zaidi, one of my favorite contemporary writers, shares some of her insights & experiences about what it means to be Muslim, what it means to feeling belonging in a society that has changed in ways that vot...
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