I opened it to watch a video about India and halfway through the video I found irrelevant hate towards Turkey. Ok bro, that Armenian girl from California likes you now.

17:39 Not sure that Buddhism takes a strong stand on the existence or non-existence of a creator god. As far as I know that's considered to be irrelevant to alleviating suffering... but as far as I know it's not proscribed at all to pray to gods, and many Buddhists do. Buddhism does strongly reject the notion that there's any moral hierarchy to caste, people are judged on their thoughts and actions; caste, name, sex have no intrinsic moral value.

Hindu texts are tolerant of transgender community ?

Great video!! The only creative criticism as someone who watches too many video essays is work on your audio a bit. Your mic is peaking. Maybe figure out the ideal distance from the mic for best unmuffeled quality. That aside, I've been looking for indian video essayist talking about our culture so fucking long and I am glad I found your channel! You got a subscriber and I hope to find other Indian/south Asian creators like you.

Wow that was impressive, thorough research and citing sources throughout, thank you. I see a lot of parallels between the Hindutva movement and the Zionists, they are using a similar playbook to move towards an ethno state. India's current loyalty to the Israeli genocide is mind boggling given our own colonial history and freedom struggle.

Hi. I wanted to thank you for your video on castes. It was educational, leftist and enjoyable. I was wondering if you could do a video (the longer the better) on the history of leftism in india, kerala and the communist party of india? Please add trigger warnings and don't use ableist language.

I live in kerala and am a syrian christian (lineage wise ig, I'm not a religious person) and I learned way too much stuff from watching it that I should have already known, about the history of the people of kerala. Thank you rohan, and I hope you will continue to make essays like these.

GREAT WORK

Wow, this is DEEP. Everyone should be made to watch it.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 such a informative and detailed video!!! Love it so much!! 😍

Looking forward to your next videos!!!!

Good on you man, workers' power!! Love from Bangladesh dude!

This is a fantastic video, the literature references are AMAZING! Your channel covers lots of my personal interests and it's admirable the work you put into your research, cheers to that! I have a question about a term in this video: you mention the Eezhava caste here and I noticed how the word "Eezhava" is similar to Eelam/Eezham (the native Tamil name for the island of (Sri) Lanka). Do you think there's any connection to it? As a diasporic Eezha/Lankan Tamil myself, I also notice many similarities between the Tamil culture on the island with the culture/customs/food of Kerala.

Thank you so much for this video! I'm trying to write a queer story that takes place on an alternate earth where global European imperialism never happened, and so this video was really really helpful for my research into what the culture of this world would be like in regards to queerness!

thank you for the caste video rohan. im part of the indian diaspora and i never learned much about indian history and what i did learn from my parents did have a right wing bias. that video was really eye opening for me

Thank you for this video! Really helped me understand I am a recent western convert to Hinduism and I am trying to understand what contemporary hinduism looks like. So sad to see this conservative and xenophobic turn has been taken in the name of such a beautiful tradition.

Yeyyyy! The video is back

nobody: white people: what if i took everything you have and then blamed you for it

Cheta pattumenge oru podcast cheyan pato with Sanal edamaruku (founder of rationalist international)

I misread the title and thought this was about trains and public transport, was pleasantly surprised

Tbh I don't really fully agree with parting into left and right for india because it's really complicated but other than that its honestly a shame how people don't see others as the same as them and i do wish everyone would just move forward amd grow as a person.

The Caste video was an amazing watch and a great introduction for me to your channel. I'll give a second watch for sure and thank you for your hard work!

happy to see this back!

I’ve always been mad at the idea of Hindutva, and how often it is supported and conflated with the idea of India. If you aren’t a supporter of Hindutva, you aren’t patriotic/you aren’t really Indian. I also really hate its mutilation of the beauty of Hinduism. I’m an Indian in America who was raised in a small sect I guess of Hinduism, but I have relatives who believe in different things, and I admire its variance. It’s an amalgamation of so so so many different beliefs that you can almost mix and match what you want and somebody follows that. So many interesting philosophical ideas. It’s all reduced to nothing under Hindutva, and I feel that’s spread to a lot of education about Hinduism as in America they taught that Hinduism has its main trio of gods, which is true for certain groups, but is very reductionary of all the other ideas within it.

Not Judge Straight 😭

Awesome video! I learned a lot :)

My community told me your video on caste taken down, I'm so happy to see that you got it back up! My community and I love your content, looking forward to see what you do next!

ppl like shashi tharoor who are actually intellectual have COMMON SENSE which these orthodox people in india lack. india needs to do so much better.

Glad it's back up!! ❤

So glad to see its back

Finally I can see it!

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39:45 note: Beef, Brahmins and Broken Men by Kancha Ilaiah Shephard!

40:36 note: the Proto-Indo-European roots of Vedic and Brahminical practices!

Why am I getting all these recommendations for coffee videos? I don’t even drink coffee. Oh wait it’s you! Hello. Nice to see you passionate about coffee and thanks for the update. I will watch the video again if you make a new version. I learned a lot from your videos.