2 mins silence for everyone who expected AIM to smoke a cig

Keeping this guy for an hour without a cigarette break itself is a big deal. Good job Smita.

Loved Iyerval more than I expected I would! Can't wait for Dr. Anand Ranganathan.

Did not smoke so far.. lifespan extended. please keep inviting him to locations where he cannot smoke, he's too precious!

Mughals 15 mark question vs Native 3 marks which one would you study 🤣👌! Smita bang on CBSE history books

It's an appeal to Ms. Smita Prakash to bring Shri Rajiv Malhotra to this podcast to discuss about his new book - Snakes in the Ganga.

One more channel where AIM has appeared. 1. Sham sharma show 2. Pgurus 3. Jaipur dialogues 4. Sattology 5. Pondy lit fest 6. Festival of bharat 7. Citti media 8. Do politics And etc etc etc

Shekhar Gupta is a perfect example of that kind of journalist who is seriously left oriented but has over the few years cunningly made his image (as a journalist) as some kind of a centrist figure. He is a cunning, opportunist,covertly left leaning journalist. Chameleon.

@17:57 "Ideology is outsourcing your brain to somebody." Wow! I am going to steal that.

As an AIM fan this pod was a delight....I started noticing ANI podcasts on my feed and looked like a very sarkari DD vibe so gave it a pass till someone like AIM was brought in. Also Smita Prakash mam, remember her stint in tv and so glad to see her in a new avatar.....she can pull off a great interview by today's standards too and this is a testimony to that....waiting for part 2 of this eagerly 👍

Listening Abhijit is very entertaining and enlightening. He speaks honestly and eloquently with convincing arguments. In my view, every conscientious citizen should listen him and understand how left (earlier governments' largesse) controls narratives and misuse its powers. What I find it very interesting: 1. Right Government looks forward to the left validation. 2. Left is global and right is local. 3.Assertive nation looks forward to future and regressive nation looks back to a glorious past. I can list him endlessly...

That was a phenomenal interview, clearly enjoyed it. Abhijit is a great personality and it’s hard to pin him down on any one subject without getting the entire background (that’s why he is great).

I have always waited for him.🙏🙏

Most awaited guest 😀😀

This guy is amassing more views than even the so called politicians, and not even a day has passed.

I like this guy a lot.He may be left,right or centre for all I care but it's a pleasure listening to him.He is honest, doesn't try to sound right.Almost like take it or leave it.

Watching Abhijit talk on any subject is real fun! The man never minces his words!

Very rarely we see an unabashedly right wing politician/ political analyst who is this well read. It was a treat to listen to his perspective on a myriad of topics.

Right and left are so contextual. Lefts call Giorgia Meloni a far-right, but rights call her right or right-center. Lefts call Modi right, and rights call Modi (recently) as left-center. Recently I laughed during Ramasimhan (formerly Ali Akbar) interview (Khilafat movement moviemaker) when he said Congress as right-wing party (because he's seen far-left govts in Kerala for long time. Since then, I thought, we only have right and wrong, but not right and left.

Amazing Abhijeet Iyer Mitra. So casual yet so sharp. Thanks Smita for the chat.

People like J Sai Deepak are real intellectual

Abhijit Iyer Mitra is so sharp. He remembers lot of things.

Superb conversation! Both are truly Patriotic. And it shows! Jai Hind 🇮🇳

Wow he’s so knowledgeable ❤

I watch Smita Prakash's any video, it could be on news debate or podcast just to see her smile ..it makes my Day😍

You mean to say that you betrayed IAS, IIT etc…. Without even appearing? That way I betrayed all competitive positions. Thanks for giving me a terminology for my failures.

39:05 it's so on point man..They ignore sai deepak but running for anand ranganathan who is very easy target

I always see 7 biscuits nicely arranged in all Smitha Prakash’s interviews. I never saw any body eating it on camera or off camera, is it made of plastic?😊

She has such a soothing voice… with all due respect to the very profound conversations she has with the guests in the interviews…her voice is very gentle and has a pitch just perfect to help you fall asleep after a long day 💐

I can listen to Abhijit endlessly !

Thank you Smitha for the interview with Abhijit. After living in Palakkad during my younger days Palakkad I was told Pala means blackboard tree.However I enjoy Abhijit videos and thank him for entertaining us through U Tube .His knowledge of world affairs is beyond compare and we love him.

Thank you Smita Prakash. My respect for you multiplied manifolds tonight for stopping AIM uttering nonsense about the people who are really looking back to Sanatan Dharma. I guess this is the biggest issue with most INDn intellectuals. They can't limit their talks to their area of expertise, I don't know why, a sense of entitlement maybe. I'm a fan of AIM as well, but only a fan of his expertise. Other than that, he is the exact opposite of what I want my child to be. Anyways, coming to my point of contention, and this is for AIM and his followers who agree with him on this. The people who are looking back to ways of Sanatan, they aren't doing so out of any inferiority complex. Your theory doesn't apply in Bharat's case, for firstly, Bharat is now more assertive than ever it has been in the last millennium and secondly, your theory would have applied only if Bharat would have regressed by continuing to be on Sanatani ways. It wasn't so, so Sanatan ways have only positive baggage. Even if we stop looking behind and look forward, what are the options we have? One option is of course Sanatani ways which is native, profound, truly inclusive and has most other good things. The other option is the "modern progressive" ways which in all reality strives to be monolithic, uniformist, is only trying to be inclusive only in the last 50 years or so and there are already cracks appearing. Isn't the choice obvious? I mean, ask any woman anywhere in the world what they would choose? Right to roam naked on beaches or right to go for abortion i.e. right over her own body and not make it a family property. Again, I don't think anything choice has been more obvious than this.

splendid conversation by ANI🙏👍❤

Was waiting for this. Woke up to this podcast :)

2 baar dekhna padega poora samjhne, nice 👍👍

I never miss any podcast of AIM.

Best series on now days which I watch every interview

I am shocked he didn't smoke a cig in the entire debate. 😜😜😜🤣🤣🤣🤣

Can listen to him all day long, brilliant mind

Macalay educations is for marks/grades in the exam and never about critical thinking. In middle school world history in US there was one day class on Indian sub continent partition with inputs from students. This was 16 years back. My son’s insistence his total disagreement on points in the reference book, dragged to 3 day topic. All along the teacher never gave a time-out!

Never expected him on this show ! So glad and enjoyed it thoroughly!

A very scintillating podcast. Truly educative and entertaining as well. A job well done. @ Smitaprakash @ Abhijitiyer

We need more podcast like this, as always I love listening to AIM

awesome and balanced podcasts. kudos to adapting to current trends Smita ji

My right ear enjoyed the podcast

You always love to hear AIM and Suhel talk

One of the best podcast i have seen in the last couple of years. Its full of unbiased, transparent information and knowledge. No judgements on any side, yet a clear and point wise discussion about different ideologies. Abhijeet Iyer - you are epic :) !!!

Wholesale discussion is only manifestation of his English vocabulary with news paper readings.

Smitaji, thanks for bringing Abhijeet on your show. First time I see him looking like a Michelin tyre. Very well mannered in his behaviour quite on the other side of spectrum when he is on Sham, Kushal show. Girgit kahinka.😍😂

Didn't expect ANI to post such content.....nice keep up the good work

What i like about U is, u get Intellectuals & sheer Brilliance of their vast understanding with simple analysis of Perception Creation.. like Abhijit Iyer Mitra & Suhel Sheth. Enlightenment of Indian Policy of Politics.

What a wonderful conversation, I was so happy to hear it. I like Abhijit Iyer Mitra he’s an absolute treat to listen. I was looking for this type of conversation. I would love if you can talk a bit more about BJP a little bit more specifically its politics and if it is really a right-wing, where is the country heading under them. If we are heading exactly in the direction of Congress would be taking us then what is the difference between BJP and Congress.

The boycott of Bollywood started with the neglect of ' The Kashmir Files ' and responsible statements by them despite knowing it is the fact presented.

A high quality discussion

At 19:06, when Smitha says 'get to the point', it pretty much summarizes this interview and Abhijeet Iyer Mitra's relevance as a political commentator or journalist.

Generally, the left-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as Liberty, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism”, while the right-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”. - Wikipedia Source Let’s compare today’s political landscape around the world and evaluate each of these adjectives assigned to the two groups. Left has developed a condescending attitudes towards everyone else because of their perceived higher moral ground. But the facts on the ground speak something else. Today the media is very tightly controlled to preach a certain viewpoint to the masses. The biggest weapon in the hands of propagandists is the media. Let’s analyze each of the definitions. I will leave it up to you to make a selection. Actually Left refers to those who oppose Government and the right means those who support the government. In a democracy these positions regularly change, therefore, the left & right also keep changing. There is no permanent left or right, just like in the real world. But Dharma & Adharma are permanent. We can be either Dharmic or Adharmic. Therefore, as followers of Vedas, we are technically neither left nor right. We are either Dharmic or Adharmic. Liberty on Social Media: Throughout the world, the Left often controls the social media and they have silenced many groups and individuals when someone disagrees with them. Left speaks of freedom of speech only when they are being supported by social media. When they are opposed by facts they often try to silence the opposition parties. Often times Islam as a religion claims to be on the left. And usually the words like Islamophobia is often used to silence the critics. They do not want themselves to be challenged. Liberty outside Social Media: Throughout the world the most corrupt politicians, academicians and individuals have claimed to be the Left. Whenever they are confronted by facts, they casually refer to every single source as right-wing. Practically, no liberty for common folks against the Left grained ideas of liberty. Many journalists have been murdered by the Left grained institutions for trying to bring facts around them. Khashoggi murder is a classical case in point. None of the Islamic leaders encourage any fact finding attempts against their structure, command and control. They are all above the law for the masses. The most suppressed communities today are in the left controlled territories. Equality: Every single leftist organization has been favorable to the elite. They preach equality but their actions don’t seem to fit what they preach. Some prominent left leaders in the US are millionaires, but they preach equality of income to Americans. Similarly, the left of Europe is usually the ones with huge financial backing while preaching equality to Europeans. Same in the case of India and many other prominent places on the planet. Fraternity: Cabals of leftist media fraternity has curtailed freedom of speech for generations. Cuba, Venezuela and now USA has plenty of such groups now. The leftist political parties have created fraternity of Unions to usurp the rights and freedom of their workers. Most of the leftist union workers feel suffocated. Islamic fraternity works similarly as the other communist left. They work only for their interest. Rights: The world history has shown till date that the left has always worked against the interest of masses. The worst human rights disasters have happened in Leftist controlled territories. Groups like Antifa, Naxals, Islamic Terrorists have been the biggest human rights violators. They often escape the laws because the other leftist support mechanisms such as media protect them. With left you have an ecosystem of Academicians, Politicians, Media and Judiciary to usurp the rights of masses. Progress: Which communist, socialist, Islamist country has ever progressed economically or socially? But media controlled by Left usually hides their incompetence and statistics. Reform: This buzzword is often used to hide their incompetence when they fail to meet their own stated goals of progress. The word reform is never used to reform their fraudulent practices, but is always used to control the masses. Media often uses these words to support their leftist ideological superiority when their leaders fail. Women and children are subjected to severe atrocities in leftist controlled territories and when they cry for help their voices suppressed by the left controlled ecosystem. Internationalism: This buzzword is extensively used to connect Left based controllers across the globe. Often times we hear from leftists, we have 57 countries or UN, speaks for our values. A common man is just perplexed as if they have no voice against a large group of leftists / communists. Authority: Without a structured organization, there cannot be any stability. Growth, progress, society needs structures. Most successful organizations who have uplifted nation’s for centuries work on a system of authority. For example, an army, civil government cannot deliver promises without a system of chains of authority. Without authority even parents cannot discipline their children. Leftist countries and ideologies use authority extensively to subjugate their masses. But a good authority helps nations grow. Japan, USA, India are excellent examples of structured authorities where they have delivered prosperity to their populations. Everyone wants to come to the USA because of an efficient judiciary, administration and employment. Hierarchy: Hierarchy exists in nature. Leftists / Communists / Islamists have hierarchies too. Often times they are used for subjugating masses. Without hierarchy no society can function. Order: Civilian Orderliness is the hallmark of a successful society. Everyone loves countries such as India, USA, Japan because there is a system of orderliness. You can’t find such order in Islamist, Communist and leftist societies for common people. Leftists promote elitist orderliness, Rightists promote mass orderliness. Duty: Without a sense of duty, no society can flourish. Duty is a hallmark of a responsible citizenry. When left demonizes duty, they usually are promoting anarchy and elitism. Tradition: Humans learn from traditions and culture. When left attacks tradition they are actually attacking history and culture. Which of humans is not proud of their tradition and culture? None. Every human loves where they come from. When left attacks traditions, they are actually telling masses, follow us and just forget your past. By ignoring tradition, a society becomes identity-less. Without identity, there will be chaos which the left wants desperately to establish a new Order which protects their elites. Reaction: Left doesn’t want anyone to question them. They will silence critics who offer intelligent solutions. They usually call all intelligent factual discussions as hate speech, call group of people as Phobic, create false narratives of victimhood and atrocities. We have all seen this extensively in the left controlled media, academics and politics across the globe. Any opposition to the Left is threatened by murders, riots, terrorism and social unrest. The leftist ecosystem supports any act including violence. Nationalism: The left hates this word because it refers to culture, traditions, truthfulness, hierarchy, facts, truth, history, duty and love. Nationalism hurts the agenda of the left. Irresponsible Globalism is the source of revenue for them. They like globalism because it suits them, and they hate nationalism because it hurts them. UN, Islamic Ummah are all such examples of leftist globalism pandering for their own selfish corrupt goals of controlling humanity. Internationalism is always good, but the local community is the most important in any society. Left is often opposed to family structures because it destroys their plan to control the last human on this planet. The word jugglers of the left have recently distinguished patriotism from nationalism to pander to their agendas. Friends, it’s time for us to understand the global dynamics of left or right. The leftist academicians have been promoted to create new definitions or change old ones now. So the world cannot learn much from their propaganda. It’s important to stay centered on the virtues of Truth and Justice and that is Dharma. Dharma means to be on the side of logic, reasoning, intellectualism and above all responsible Duty. Dharma is the new center. It’s important to reject all hate coming from left (Islamist, Communist, Socialists) and adopt a right path of Truth and Justice. We are neither right or left, we have to be dharmic.

Well here is my story me and my school time friend were two polar of political ideologies he was a a major supporter of CPIM and I was die hard TMC supporter . In that Era of west bengal CPIM was left and TMC is clearly Rw. Then after few years we get mature and one day suddenly we came and discussion and find out both of us supporting BJP not BJP but Modi apparently 🤣🤣🤣 This happend to a major section of Indian youth . Although we criticised BJP many times but find out only this party following major roles of freedom of expression.

This is Smita Prakash's best Podcast. A very insightful Podcast, sighting the difference between left, right and centre. Must listen to this and you decide for yourself, your standing if there is any.

I agree , he should not smoke as he is too precious. Thanks Smita ji for bringing a true intellectual genius , who speaks truth without fear unlike most of India's so called journalist and writers . God bless.

Thank you.

very nice Smita-ji...thanks for inviting AIM...he is one of best observers on various aspects including domestic and geo politics

This was an enlightening discussion. Subscribed.

This is soooooo awesome....

Very good interview-hope pieces left are picked up soon! There needs to be more light shed on the modus operandi of the left wing globally. BJP, at least Modi is not right wing as Abhijit Iyer rightly said and yet BJP is very apologetic about their leanings. Very strange!

Great conversation

Brilliant brilliant episode! Keep it up! 🙂

Smita ji , I enjoy ur discussion programmes .very informative. Keep doing this good work. Thank you from England

Perfect person for podcast❤️

It is always very interesting to listen AIM.

Nobody ate those Cookies 🍪🍪 thru out the Interview. What a Waste. Well, Smita will save and serve the same cookies🍪🍪 to the next guest. I think there are 7 🍪 Cookies on the plate.😅😂 These Cookies 🍪 are Leftover from Suhel Seth's Interview. Wonderful Discussion.👍👍

Good soul people

Wow, 🧠 conversation... 🙏👌👍👏

APJ Abdul was a scientist, and he was the president.

One of the most interesting aim interviews along with the one on VAAD. I hear a lot of swami in him… Wish cho would have still been alive. Would have loved to listen to him on such podcasts…

Indian history proved that many kings and kingdom was plurish yet much sought for World Trade. Regional political parties are backbone and the true representative.

Excellent discussion. Obliged and thank you . Had a wonderful time.🙂

I was wondering why I had an affinity towards Abhijit, it went beyond the fact that he espouses right wing views - now I understood its a fellow Palakkad Iyer recognising another quintessential Palakkad Iyer.

Smitha looked quite unsettled with Abhijeet's Left turns, Right turns, Up turns and Down turns. Ditto with the viewers, I guess. But an engaging and informative dialogue.

Has the second part come in yet?

Absolutely loved this!

The audio is panned to the left in all your videos. It's very odd on headphones. Please get this checked. Fantastic content!

Wow, i loved every bit of it.

Abjijit is absolutely on the spot when he says Rana Ayub is entirely created & sustained by RW!

Palakkad is not milk forest. Pala is a variety of tree. Palakkad means forest of Pala trees. I hope no one from Palakkad listens this version.

Finally they fixed the one sidedaudio problem

Great discussion.. Very informative..

Thanks a lot....very very informative....would request for more episodes from AIM.....atleast to spread awareness among right wing

Abhijeet is one of the naadi vaids who can diagnose cancer with just a touch ... and infact listening to him is like giving a massage to brain from inside he not only refines the crude questions which arised in your mind by gives right words to them ... thanks lot abhijeet for sharing

Abhijit surprisingly restrained here. Shree iyer and kala will be like, why only us?🤣🤣

smitha prakash rocking now days well done mam Jai Shri Ram 🙏🙏

Pls call more author's on your podcast 👍

Freedom of expression is foundation of all great civilization, let it be past or present.

Smita, One the most brilliant program on KZfaq. I wish you success. Could you please make it little Hindiaised (i coined it you give a message); the reach will be way wider. Abhijit is articulate as ever. I don’t agree with him all the time but I really admire him. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a narcissist. Wishing you success.

I always liked him but I became a fan boy after seeing this interview 😍

AIM hits the nail on it's head with every statement while Smita incessantly tries to give a left versus right twist on every issue. There is no true right or true left in the Indian context and I fully appreciate the painstaking effort that AIM makes to explain this rather obvious point. Unfortunately , Smita has a clear agenda and has not come to this podcast to listen . Her idea of left and right is so deeply rooted in the popular Indian discourse that she will steer any discussion to the stereotypes that she has in her own head. She needs to take a leaf out of Lex Fridman's podcast just to observe how one can keep the discussion intellectually stimulating and yet be able to hold on to your own views.

Palakkad roots from pala tree(from the folk-lores and famous for the white flower which incidentally blossoms around this time of the year) and kaadu as in forest

You both are simply super duper.

Smitaji, am also from urban Karnataka,have been following your podcasts closely,excellent stuff,keep it up.

Please bring AJIT BHARTI, MAJOR GAURAV & VIBHAV TOGETHER, MANISH KASHYAP, ANAMALAI, VIVEK AGNIHOTRI, NEERAJ ATRI, ABHISHEK TIWARI, TEJASWI SURYA, T RAJA SINGH, AVIJIT CHAVDA, CHIRAG PASWAN

from the profound to the inane..AIM vacillates like an pendulum...from the nuanced to the outlandish he spouts theories and opinions, which at times are stupendous, yet totally bogus some times !!!