The Prakhar Gupta Xperience

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

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 autho...

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 t...

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 boo...

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 als...

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 i...

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...

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.

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.

This is the audio from my live session on YouTube dated March 28 2020.

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 S...

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Adam and Prakhar talk about the psychology behind death, uncertainty, dreams, childhood experiences, psychopathology and meaning.

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.

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.