This week's podcast is all about nationalism. We review the Rohit Shetty cop-verse movie Suryavanshi and Kabir Khan's 83. This Republic Day, come soak in some patriotism.

This episode is all about Modiji's struggles with flyovers, Indian tech innovation, Satyapal Malik, and more flyover talk.

We discuss the major talking points of 2021. In RSS's words, so much hua tha, kitna kiya hai.

In true Modiji style, we mark the new year with the best of Bhajapod from the year gone by. Self promotion is the best promotion.

In this episode, we have Aakar Patel, former executive director of Amnesty International India, an author of several books, including the latest 'Price of the Modi Years'. We discuss his personal interactions with the Supreme Leader during his Guj days, his great ability to absorb information across disciplines (masala kya hai?) and the way his tenure has shaped the nation. Also, Aakar gives his take on how he views nationalism as an idea.

Link to Aakar Patel's books

'Price of the Modi Years'

https://www.amazon.in/Price-Modi-Years-Aakar-Patel/dp/9391234224/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1636901940&qsid=257-4878293-6988235&refinements=p_27%3AAakar+Patel&s=books&sr=1-1&sres=9391234224%2C9389648890%2C9385288261%2C938403018X%2C9384316822%2CB074NQWL5J%2CB08ZQF77WV%2CB076WZT5KH%2CB074NXB732%2CB07R6N2WN2

Other Books

https://www.amazon.in/Books-Aakar-Patel/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AAakar+Patel

In this week's episode, we have Ahmer Naqvi, to talk about how Pakistan was always living in the future. We discuss how Bollywood looks like to someone from across the border. Ahmer also talks about how several liberal democracies have shown great readiness to embrace majoritarian politics. We then go on to discuss how jingoistic narratives get retrofitted to historical events to suit a political agenda. Also, how cricket is not a vehicle for jingoism in India.

We talk about the fastest 1 billion jabs, the FabIndia boycott, the continuing Aryan Khan case. We also go on a tangent and discuss Hedgewar, Golwalkar and how they inspired RSS supremos of the future.

We discuss the idea of a deshbhakti curriculum and the kattar deshbhakts that it would produce. Also, a detailed analysis of what Nanduji's post PM days might look like, and the Aryan Khan episode.