Reels, Riots, Jobless Youth: How New India Was Manufactured | Ajay Prakash (4K)

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#AjayPrakashJanjwar #JanjwarMedia #CultureWars Ajay Prakash is a ground reporter and the founder-editor of Janjwar Media.  India’s culture wars are increasingly commercial. Viral gurus, shock reels, cheap data, and political incentives collide to reshape family, faith, and power. This conversation maps how markets manufacture morality and why ordinary people pay the price. The tone is clear, evidence led, and unsentimental.  Expect to learn why outrage about women’s sexuality sells, how class splits guru audiences, the difference between beauty-parlor babas and ascetic saints, why incest shock reels trend and what is staged versus real, how privatization hollowed colleges and pushed youth toward riots and reels, how devotion becomes a macho identity when jobs vanish, how TV and phones rewired privacy at home, what safe sex and open relationships change about marriage, why loneliness and youth suicide rise with tech and overwork, how love jihad and Romeo squads police desire for elections, why data extraction on cheap phones fuels soft control, how demolitions and platformized domestic work remake the poor, why inflation not policy curbed fertility, how AI companions and self-love shift intimacy, how market and NGO incentives captured Indian feminism, what a grounded feminism would fight for, and much more.  📌 Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro/Highlights - Ajay Prakash x Kintu Parantu 00:06:05 - Opening and Context 00:09:11 - Purity Politics and Misogyny 00:12:26 - Class Markets of Babas 00:15:21 - Saints versus Celebrity Gurus 00:18:39 - Faith as Economic Ecosystem 00:21:07 - Shock Reels Enter Newsrooms 00:25:22 - Privatization Dismantles Education 00:31:11 - Devotion as Macho Identity 00:34:00 - Cultural Division as Strategy 00:37:05 - Apartments and Caste Segregation 00:39:10 - Tech Drives Cultural Shifts 00:44:05 - Serials Reshape Family Dynamics 00:48:02 - Privacy Splits Households 00:50:15 - Work Drains Intimacy 00:53:00 - Loyalty as Social Myth 00:55:02 - Women Mirror Male Behaviors 00:56:17 - Marriage Anxiety and Retreat 00:59:06 - Safe Sex Decoupled From Marriage 01:03:06 - From Letters to WhatsApp Love 01:06:26 - Loneliness Becomes Normal 01:09:14 - Digital Success Illusions 01:12:06 - Journalism Saturation and Precarity 01:13:00 - Policing Love and Desire 01:14:03 - Politics of Love Jihad 01:15:23 - Class Modernity Hypocrisy 01:17:48 - Campus Origins of Narrative 01:20:27 - Conflict as Business Model 01:21:07 - Division for Electoral Gain 01:22:04 - Datafication and Surveillance 01:23:29 - Data as Currency 01:24:14 - Demolitions and Displacement 01:25:10 - Turning Poor Against Themselves 01:26:14 - Rural Labor Exploited 01:27:25 - Platformization of Domestic Work 01:28:00 - Upper Caste Fertility Anxiety 01:29:11 - Inflation as Contraception 01:30:04 - Tech Replaces Companionship 01:31:21 - AI Companions and Self Love 01:32:13 - Manufactured Hatred Culture 01:34:07 - Normalized Cruelty and Caste 01:35:05 - Power Worship Among Women 01:36:01 - Authoritarian Appeal Explained 01:37:02 - Patriarchy Reinvented 01:38:45 - Marketed Indian Feminism 01:40:12 - Safety Unchanged Despite Feminism 01:42:11 - Feminism’s Class Blindness 01:43:40 - NGO Capture of Reform 01:44:20 - Market Friendly Feminist Narratives 01:45:21 - Closing Remarks Instagram: / kintuparantu.sheeba Wanna be a Guest on Kintu Parantu? 🎙️ Email: [email protected] _____________________________________________________________________ © 2025 Sheeba Aslam Fehmi Any illegal reproduction of this content will result in immediate legal action.