Mind your Buffalo

An ode to the savarna, urban liberal professional class & its low-stakes non-interventionism, from Dia Mirza's environmentalism to Sutlej censorship & the liberal teerthification of CJP protests-- oh the warm safe choice to stay in the darkness.

Hope is a lazy drug in an era that desperately wants comforting stories. Do you feel the darkness around you, let it into your soul. No this is not a Scorpio-trait!

Fertility rates are dropping in India, please produce more children-- billionaire's children are giving you advice, politicians are doing real estate scams & the educated class is still being overgrown children about political realities. Wake up love, we are just Digital Peons.

Shiv Sena MPs have been coopted into the NDA. BJP is going around breaking regional parties. Democracy stretches & morphs into a reality TV. Who is next? Meanwhile FIFA World Cup exposes how the Indian order has no answers for any quest that calls for long-term planning & vision. Fun times

We are now in the endgame. The BJP grows stronger, TMC has imploded & opposition is at its weakest. Meanwhile cockroaches appear problematic and coopted. In the background misogynist comics can still laugh while 28 lakh line up UP constable recruitment exams.

Godi Media has picked a fight outside its league, with YouTube teachers. Meanwhile, apolitical Gen-Z cockroaches await their street debut. Elsewhere, hills are gridlocked with traffic, desi billionaires are fighting in court & robodogs are guarding AI centers-- world just becomes crazier

CBSE fiasco demonstrates we excel as a nation in finding new ways to mess things up every week. But don't worry Araku coffee is going global. So everything is fine.

NEET exam leaks to launch of Vantara ice-cream to the end of judiciary-mandated casteism-- another week of bizarre end-of-discourse news

After looking invincible for long, both TMC & DMK got wiped out in a single day. Left lost Kerala and Congress got smashed in Assam. A look at the results and thoughts thereof. How does the BJP keep winning? What would need to happen to defeat it? Listen on for a rolling speculative introspection on electioneering in the BJP era.

Summer wave is here but don't worry just buy onions! Ambani family has invited Rihanna meanwhile Ola has launched its motorbike which have not yet exploded yet. Hold your breath!

Is Noida India's best city? Is the Ambani family ok? What is wrong with Pune's bikers? Most importantly is Lord BeerBiceps going to be fine? All important questions in the middle of war & economic crisis.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the extra members-only show, please subscribe: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BuffaloIntellectual OR, YouTube P...

There is a Trans Bill which has been pushed through Parliament with strange haste, meanwhile discourse is stuck on Dhurandar even as some very strange news erupt around us. The world just keeps getting weirder and no one learns anything. Very 'end of days' coded. Time to embrace the strange!

An angry, upset rant on the reality of college campuses & the absolute savarna fragility of overreaction over the UGC Guidelines

2026 will be an interesting year for the elite savarna-sphere. Some trend-predictions from podcast fatigue, wanderlust to sex, polyamory and dating apps-- a fun end-of-the-year rambling. 

Festive season is over, was it fun? Was it real? Or did everything- the social media stories, the ethnic outfits, the 'family time', the celebrations and even the objections-- did it all feel like carrying the spontaneity & verve of staged, choreographed "candid" picture. As an outsider to Diwali festivities, I am wondering is there any authenticity left in post-retail, post-rehearsed cultural...

Clickbait-y title aside-- these are ominous times. Like a precursor to bad things, most folks dont think it will get so bad before it rapidly does. Let's hope this is not one of those. A ramble through just how possible a dictatorship is in India with lessons from Pakistani-history, who know a thing or two about this jig. 

Yep, now we are dealing with potential proof of electoral fraud. Nope, it wasn't the EVM. It was good old fashioned list manipulations. Why can't AI & techies make our frauds more high-tech at least? We can't do anything classy in this country. Sigh!

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.

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. --------------------...

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=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7rSSA2N3Xc2XLynJOOsP...

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.

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 o...

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 Buddh...

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...

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!