The World Is Ending Podcast

I talk to my school friends Mohit Senapati and Shaumya Jha from DPS Bokaro. Mohit has been one of the few people who was invited to Singapore in class 10th and Shaumya is a student at Ohio State University. Find Mohit at

Pakistan and India have experienced constant mutual political disagreements and conflicts and one of the huge concerns for the 2 nations in the Indian subcontinent is the issue of Pakistani Hindus. We invite "aunty"- someone, who has lived in Pakistan for 18 years and was born and brought up there and then my friend "Talha" who fact checks a couple of controversial things mentioned by aunty. Listen to a Pkaistani Hindu talk about the 2 nations, the citizen amendment act and public policy and Pakistan's minority.

The Siddis are a community that migrated from East Africa to India between the 15th and 19th centuries. ... The Siddis have now settled primarily in the states of Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh. They came as merchants, sailors, slaves, and mercenaries, going on to even become rulers. They are the sole Indo African community that has lived to tell stories of their culture. Although a lot of the community is extremely impoverished, they have a lot of zeal and a lot of grit to live life as it comes. Along with them, we have a very interesting Ola Jason who is the bridge between Bollywood and Nollywood. Ola has had a very interesting stay in Bollywood and he is a believer in God. He talks about his message for the black communities in India and how he overcame discrimination.
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Special thanks to Satwik Behera for this episode.

The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community. They belong to the Pancha (five) Gauda Brahmana groups. from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits originally lived in the Kashmir Valley before Muslim influence entered the region after which large numbers converted to Islam. They are the only remaining Kashmiri Hindu community native to Kashmir. This episode is a deep dive into the history, society and culture of Kashmiri Pandits and explores some very vital questions with respect to Kashmiri Pandits taking marriage, dating and family as the focal point.

from his website- I am an alumni of NCHMCT Pusa campus the batch of 1990. With nearly three decades of experience under my wing I have been a part of a variety of segments of Food and Beverage trade. I started my culinary career with the Taj Group of Hotels and continued to work there for the next two decades plus learning the art under the tutelage of masters Chef Satish Arora and Chef Arvind Saraswat.

TAJ gave me immense opportunity to hone my skills on various platforms. I had the opportunity to train at the top restaurants of the chain. Orient Express,Machaan,Handi,Golden Dragon among others.

I worked at the TAJ SATS Air Catering Ltd, the flight catering wing where i learnt the art and Science of Bulk Cooking. I also had exhaustive exposure to international cuisines while developing menus for top of the line airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic,Cathay Pacific,United Airlines,Emirates, Air India and Jet Airways to name a few. I led teams targeted at implementation and training of various quality Tools such as ISO 9001 and HACCP

I also cooked and traveled with the Honorable Prime Ministers ,Presidents and Vice presidents of India to various destinations in the world on their official tours and summits. Visit of Then Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the Russian Federation and Visit of Mr. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat the Vice President to Cairo for the G20 summit are my most memorable ones.

While at TAJ I also headed teams for product development for retail and institutional catering Businesses.I have lead teams of chefs from as small as five members in hotels to more than three hundred staff at the flight kitchens.I was a part of various project and Pre-opening teams.

As a career change I moved to Specialty Restaurants Ltd,The Largest multi brand Restaurant Chain in India as the Executive chef,Product development and Quality. Successfully implemented Quality and product development goals during my tenure. I conducted hugely successful culinary promotions across the Non-Chinese brands of the chain which included Global Grill ,Afghan and Awadhi Cuisines.

In the year 2013 joined the Indismart Group as the Director of Culinary Arts. The group runs IIHM and IAM brands of hotel Schools supported by Indismart brand boutique hotels. International Institute of Hotel management promotes and supports Culinary arts By various Initiatives such as IIHM YOUNG CHEF INDIA SCHOOLS, TEACHER CHEF INDIA.

I lead the culinary academics team of the group and I am also the Chief Culinary support of the YOUNG CHEF OLYMPIAD; World's largest competition for culinary students

Sean Kernan is a full time Quora and Medium writer with over 10 Million monthly readers. He is popularly known as the Son of Quora and is one of the most influential people on the platform. Catch him on the podcast discusing how to go viral on Quora and how to create content that matters.

Ritwik is a player for the Bengal cricket team, one of the oldest cricket teams in the world. He's been a part of under 16 and under 23 teams with a reign of captaincy under his belt. Let's listen about his views on sports from this upcoming International cricket sensation.

This episode has been recorded in Hindi. Zishan Misbahi is a writer, research scholar, interested in Human Issues, Jurisprudence and Sufism. He has devoted his life to the pursuit of Islam. He's also a religious journalist and journal co compiler who right now works as a teacher in Allahabad. In this episode he takes several brave and important questions about islam from our audience.

Anangsha is a writer and poetess from Assam, a 3x bestselling author on Amazon and boasts 10s of millions of readers from around the world across various social media. She is a storyteller, a researcher, a poet, a sensation and an amazing person. Apart from her writing career, Anangsha holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from IIT Guwahati. She has several research publications and two patents (related to unsaturated soil mechanics) to her name. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at NIT Silchar. It is very safe to say that this person is a bundle of talents and has a lot of insights on several things.

Ashwin Srivastava graduated from IIT Bombay and is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He has invested in startups as well as growing companies, in the form of seed-stage and growth capital investments respectively. He sits on the board of 8 companies across the globe and is an active advisor to the companies he invests in.

He has been a mentor for numerous disruptive start-up products and has created million-dollar enterprises, while acting as Guest Faculty at numerous academies and institutes, including Incept Training Academy.

He was also a part of the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017 and has made a significant impact across several domains. His team is now working on alleviating the corona situation and we wish them all the luck in their efforts in saving the world.

Today we chat with Namrata Parija who is an Instagram sensation and TikTok superstar with over 140,000 followers on Instagram and over 2 Million engagements on TikTok. She has created a massive persona for herself and has been recognized by big brands including but not limited to Vivel, Clovia, Rapido, TVF and so on. She has also voiced her opinions against cyberbullying and been very vocal about it. The best thing about her is that she is incredibly honest and straightforward, In this episode, she talks about her tussle with the Indian police and how she became a sensation across social media in spite of being from a small town. Go show her some love on Instagram (namrata_parija) and TikTok (namrata_parija)

MENSA is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It's membership extends to only those people who have extremely high IQ.

In the first episode of The World is ending podcast we chat with Vivek Nagarajan who is a member of MENSA high IQ society. Vivek is a 30 something programmer, who happens to have had a number of diverse experiences in life.

He spent his adolescence among the mighty and cool Himalayas and some of that has rubbed off on him. He has a massive 12 million viewership on Quora and has lead a very interesting life.

When he was in grade 3, he taught himself programming, philosophy, electronics and advance maths. By grade 6 he got bored of school and droppped out. After that he went to live in the Himalayas and continued learning more.

Apart from reading popular science and more DIY books ana magazines he also learned everything from forging steel to weaving baskets to working with wood, since it was a practical requirement.

In his own words- "I don't think school has much to do with developing intelligence. Intelligence develops when you are interacting with people much more smarter than you, you pick up ways of thinking and learning as well as information. The best teacher is one who explains how s/he thinks, so you can use that technique.". Find Vivek as Vivek Nagarajan on Quora