Don't Know, Do Care

Curious minds welcome, clueless takes guaranteed! Don’t Know, Do Care is a curious mix of comedy, commentary, and casually intense learning. Every episode, one of us brings a topic the others know nothing about and tries to "educate" them, just enough for them to feign interest. Do we learn anything? Absolutely not. Do we care about the topic? Probably not. Are we curious, though? Potentially yes. We're not experts by any stretch of our already stretched imagination, but we're just trying to get a bit smarter, one strange question at a time. Curiosity might have killed a cat, but will it kill us? Only time will tell. Join us on our journey to learn something you didn’t know you cared about.

Don’t Know How Mangoes Took Over India 03/30/2026

Don’t Know How Mangoes Took Over India Summer is objectively the worst season. It’s hot, sticky, mildly unbearable… and yet, somehow, we all tolerate it for one reason: mangoes. In this episode, we take a deep dive into India’s favourite fruit, not just as food, but as a full-blown cultural phenomenon. From its origins in South Asia and its journey through Portuguese trade, to the fact that India produces nearly half the world’s mangoes, this is a story that’s way bigger than just something you eat after lunch. We talk about the absurd variety of mangoes across the country and how these names come from places, people, and occasionally very random backstories. We also get into why mango season is so painfully short, and why no amount of branding (“Har Mausam Aam”) can override the very specific weather cycle these fruits need to actually taste good. But mangoes don’t just stop at food. We explore how they became a symbol of luxury during the Mughal era, inspired the ambi pattern in fashion, and somehow went from royal gardens to being sucked directly from the seed in Indian households. This episode is classic comedy commentary meets offbeat learning, packed with quirky insights about history, agriculture, culture, and the very real emotional attachment we all seem to have with this fruit. It’s lighthearted education wrapped in one of those seemingly random topics that turns out to be much deeper than expected. Because at the end of the day, mango isn’t just a fruit. It’s a season, a personality trait, and for some of us… a lack of self-control. Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40655020

Don't Know How the Dinosaurs Actually Went Extinct 03/23/2026

Don't Know How the Dinosaurs Actually Went Extinct If you grew up anytime after the 1980s, you probably think you know exactly how dinosaurs went extinct: one massive asteroid, one very bad day, end of story. The problem is… we didn’t actually know that for most of modern scientific history. In this episode, we go back to a time when the extinction of dinosaurs was basically a free-for-all of extremely confident guesses. We’re talking climate change, massive volcanic eruptions in the Deccan Traps, eggs that were somehow both too strong and too weak, and at least one theory suggesting dinosaurs just collectively decided to stop reproducing. Which, honestly, feels like a very low-energy way to go extinct. We talk about shocked quartz, the discovery of the Chicxulub crater, and the kind of planet-wide chaos that follows when something the size of a mountain hits Earth at absurd speeds. We also explore why this theory took so long to be accepted, how it competed with volcanic explanations, and how science actually works when multiple ideas are fighting for legitimacy. This episode is a mix of comedy commentary, offbeat learning, and genuinely fascinating scientific detective work. It’s lighthearted education that starts with ridiculous theories and ends with one of the most dramatic, evidence-backed stories in natural history. Along the way, there are plenty of quirky insights into how consensus is built, how evidence wins (eventually), and how even the biggest discoveries can take decades to land. Important links: Deccan Traps - Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary - Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs? - Chicxulub crater - . Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid - Walter Alvarez - Luis Walter Alvarez - How an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs - We Know the Origins of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs - . Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction - How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40570300

Don't Know How the Oscars Decide 'Best Picture' 03/16/2026

Don't Know How the Oscars Decide 'Best Picture' Every year, the Oscars announce their winners… and millions of people immediately react with some variation of “wait, that movie won?” In this episode, we dig into how the Oscars actually pick winners, and why the result often feels confusing, underwhelming, or completely disconnected from what audiences loved that year. We break down the preferential ballot system used for Best Picture, where Academy members rank films instead of voting for just one. The result is a slow elimination process that tends to reward consensus rather than passion. Then there’s the money. Studios routinely spend tens of millions of dollars on Oscar campaigns, designed to keep their film top of mind for busy voters. At that point, the Oscars start looking less like an award show and more like a carefully managed political campaign. The result is a system that doesn’t necessarily reward the most innovative or beloved film. Instead, it rewards the movie that feels respectable, timely, and broadly acceptable to thousands of industry voters. By the end of this episode, the Oscars will stop feeling mysterious. They’ll start feeling… oddly predictable. And once you see the system, it becomes very hard to unsee it. Important links: 1. What is preferential ballot voting? Here's how a movie wins ‘Best Picture' Oscar - 2. How are Oscars winners decided? Here's how the voting process works - 3. Academy Awards - 4. Oscar bait - 5. Oscar season - 6. Oscar academy demographics - 7. T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40485660

Don't Know About Feminism in India 03/09/2026

Don't Know About Feminism in India Every year around International Women’s Day, corporations suddenly remember that women exist. They post inspirational graphics, run aggressively mediocre ad campaigns, and pretend a century of labour struggles, suffrage movements, and fights for basic rights can be summarised in a pastel Instagram tile. This episode starts with that frustration and then moves somewhere much more interesting: the history of women-led movements in India that actually tried to change material conditions for women. Along the way, we also talk about the uncomfortable reality that feminism has always struggled with class and caste divisions. Even progressive movements have often been led by relatively privileged women, leaving the most marginalised communities to fight for representation inside the movement itself. This episode mixes comedy commentary, offbeat learning, and quirky insights into the history of socialist-feminist organising in India. It’s lighthearted education only in the sense that we try to keep the tone conversational while discussing extremely serious issues, everything from caste violence to climate displacement and gender-based violence globally. And if International Women’s Day is going to mean anything at all, it probably has to start there. Important links: 1. Bharat Stree Mahamandal - 2. Women in Modern India, Volume 4 by Geraldine Forbes - 3. Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti - 4. A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia by Bina Agarwal - 5. Dalit Mahila Samiti - 6. The Dalit Women’s Movement in India: Dalit Mahila Samiti by Jahnvi Andharia with the ANANDI Collective - 7. 137 women and girls killed every day by intimate partners or family members in 2024 - 8. Facts and figures: Ending violence against women - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40354365

Don't Know How the British Drugged China 03/02/2026

Don't Know How the British Drugged China This episode, we dive into the deeply unhinged saga of the Opium Wars; the time Britain decided that if China wouldn’t buy enough British goods, it would simply get millions of Chinese people addicted to opium and then declare war when China tried to stop it. From the Treaty of Nanjing and the forced cession of Hong Kong, to extraterritorial rights and humiliating indemnities, this episode unpacks how gunboats and capitalism worked hand in hand. We also zoom out to India, where peasants were trapped in coercive opium contracts, pushed into debt cycles, and forced to prioritise poppy cultivation even during famine. Empire, it turns out, was extremely organised. As always, this isn’t a dry history lecture. It’s comedy commentary layered over uncomfortable facts, offbeat learning about trade policy turned military aggression, and quirky insights into how “free markets” somehow keep arriving on warships. If you’ve ever heard someone romanticise the British Empire as a civilising force, this episode exists to ruin that narrative, politely, but thoroughly. Important links: 1. The Opium Wars in China - 2. How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians - 3. The paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, USA on the Opium Wars - 4. Extract from Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40270255

Don't Know Why Pink Is Feminine 02/23/2026

Don't Know Why Pink Is Feminine At some point in life, pink stopped being a colour and started being a personality test. It went from “just lightened red” to “this says something about you,” and nobody remembers signing up for that meeting. In this episode, we unpack how pink became “feminine”, and why that idea is way newer, way flimsier, and way more profit-driven than most people realise. We trace pink back to its original associations with power, war, and aristocracy (yes, pink used to be for boys), and then follow the extremely unserious but highly profitable retail decisions that flipped the script in the 20th century. Spoiler: it wasn’t biology. It wasn’t evolution. It was marketing. Along the way, we explore how pink didn’t just become feminine, it became loaded. It started carrying judgments about seriousness, power, masculinity, and worth. Wearing pink stopped being aesthetic and started being political. And in true Don’t Know, Do Care fashion, we blend comedy commentary, quirky insights, and just enough offbeat learning to make you mildly uncomfortable about your childhood wardrobe. Pink, as it turns out, is just a wavelength. The drama was entirely ours. Important links: 1. The Color Pink — History, Meaning and Facts - 2. The complicated gender history of pink - 3. How did pink become a girly color? - 4. Has Pink Always Been a “Girly” Color? - 5. Here’s How Pink Became A Girly Color - 6. Pretty in pink: The early development of gender-stereotyped colour preferences - 7. ‘Girls’ preference for pink is not innate’ - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40189020

Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme 02/16/2026

Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme In this episode, we ask a question that feels mildly illegal to say out loud in 2026: is Generative AI basically a Ponzi scheme? From OpenAI’s eye-watering losses to Nvidia selling $40,000 GPUs like they’re limited-edition sneakers, we unpack the very small circle of companies pumping billions into each other while insisting this is the future of humanity. Microsoft invests in OpenAI. Nvidia invests in companies that buy Nvidia chips. Those companies build data centers to power tools that still hallucinate confidently incorrect nonsense. Everyone claps. The debt piles up. Repeat. This episode is peak comedy commentary meets uncomfortable finance reality. It’s offbeat learning about GPUs, venture capital, debt bubbles, and data centre mania, packed with quirky insights into how circular investing works when everyone is funding everyone else. Consider it lighthearted education about a not-so-light situation, blending tech skepticism with the kind of random topics that somehow connect Silicon Valley egos, environmental destruction, and your LinkedIn feed. If you’ve ever wondered who is actually making money in the AI boom, this episode might ruin the vibe. In the best way. Important links: 1. Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - 2. How AI Datacenters Eat the World - 3. The leading generative AI companies - 4. NVIDIA H100 Price Guide 2026: GPU Costs, Cloud Pricing & Buy vs Rent - 5. Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - 6. Nvidia-backed Nscale raises $1.1bn in investor frenzy over AI infrastructure - 7. Tracking NScale's funding - 8. Nscale Contracts Approximately 200,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with Microsoft to Deliver NVIDIA AI Infrastructure Across Europe and the U.S. - 9. The Oracle and Nvidia shebang - 10. Nscale Announces $433 Million Pre-Series C SAFE, Building on Historic $1.1B Series B Momentum - 11. Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever - 12. MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing - 13. 55% of businesses admit wrong decisions in making employees redundant when bringing AI into the workforce - 14. Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40107540

Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day 02/09/2026

Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day If you’re listening to this around Valentine’s Day, there’s a good chance you’ve recently participated in one of the world’s most aggressive annual rituals of romance, panic, and procurement. In this episode, we take a long, uncomfortable look at Valentine’s Day, not as a celebration of love, but as a perfectly engineered, brutally efficient global logistics operation disguised as candlelight and overpriced roses. We peel back the soft-focus UI and dig into the operating system underneath. From why Valentine’s Day accounts for up to 40% of annual florist revenue, to how nearly 250 million roses are grown, cut, refrigerated, flown across continents, and delivered within a non-negotiable 72-hour window, this is offbeat learning at its most industrial. Love, it turns out, is less about emotion and more about timing, because flowers don’t get delayed, they die. By the end, Valentine’s Day looks less like a romantic milestone and more like a textbook case of planned obsolescence, where romance is profitable only if it expires on schedule. It’s one of those random topics that, once you see the machinery behind it, becomes impossible to unsee. Love may be priceless, but expressing it apparently comes with a refrigerated, air-freighted, non-negotiable bill. Important links: 1. Valentine's Day Wikipedia page - 2. More history of Valentine's Day - 3. Yet another Valentine's Day origin story - 4. Fairtrade Flowers in High Demand for Valentine’s Day - 5. Valentine's Day Trends and Statistics - 6. Valentine’s Day Spending Trends - 7. Flower Logistics from Kenya - 8. The flower power of Valentine’s Day - 9. Temporary Beauty: The Environmental Impact of Cut Flowers - 10. Hidden Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers - 11. Yes, your mother loves the flowers, but maybe not the cost of flying them in - 12. Overview of flower production in Sub-Saharan Africa - 13. French group issues Valentine’s Day warning that cut flowers have a variety of pesticides - 14. The Slow Flowers Movement - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/40032930

Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory 02/02/2026

Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you’re there; not in a poetic, existential way, but in a deeply annoying, brain-just-crashed way? This episode starts there and then happily spirals into the many ways our minds glitch, misfire, and occasionally gaslight us for no apparent reason. We explore a bunch of everyday brain “glitches”, not mental illnesses or rare disorders, just extremely common psychological bugs that most of us experience and have collectively decided to ignore. As always, this all comes packaged as comedy commentary with plenty of quirky insights and lighthearted education, including a game segment where we try to figure out which brain glitches are real and which ones are just psychology-flavoured nonsense. The result is a joyful mess of random topics, memory failures, optical illusions, fake disorders, and the comforting realisation that your brain isn’t broken, it’s just doing what any overworked system does from time to time: glitch. So the next time you feel like the universe is sending you a sign, maybe pause for a second. It’s probably just your brain rebooting mid-task, and honestly, that’s way less scary. Important links: 1. Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget - 2. Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies - 3. What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? - 4. All to know about the McCollough Effect - 5. What Is Capgras Syndrome? - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39943615

Don't Know Who the Constitution Was Really Written For 01/26/2026

Don't Know Who the Constitution Was Really Written For In this episode, we talk about the Indian constitution, which felt like a good time to talk about the Indian Constitution on account of today being 26th January, India's Republic Day. As always, we don't talk about the constitution in a chest-thumping, flag-waving way, but in the messy, uncomfortable, historically accurate way it actually deserves. Because for a document that gets invoked constantly in public debates, it’s surprisingly misunderstood, misrepresented, and occasionally weaponised for reasons that range from sincere concern to complete nonsense. We unpack the RSS’s early objections to the Constitution, their bizarre obsession with the Manusmriti, and why replacing a modern constitutional framework with a religious law book full of caste violence, misogyny, and arbitrary nonsense would have been an unmitigated disaster. This is where comedy commentary becomes a survival mechanism, because some arguments genuinely don’t deserve seriousness. We also take the Constitution seriously enough to criticise it. Despite all this, the Constitution remains an extraordinary achievement even though it is flawed, amendable, and far better than the alternatives being screamed about today. Wrapped in quirky insights, lighthearted education, and a lot of uncomfortable truths, this episode sits squarely in Don’t Know, Do Care territory, where random topics like colonial bureaucracy, caste law, and farm protests somehow collide into one coherent argument. Important links: 1. RSS protesting the Constitution in 1949 – 2. ⁠F. Max Muller’s translation of the Manusmriti – 3. ⁠RSS writes a love letter to Manu – 4. ⁠RSS continues protesting the Constitution – 5. ⁠Archives of drafting of the Constitution – 6. ⁠Dakshayani Velayudhan, arguably the most exceptional member of the Constituent Assembly – Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39860900

Don’t Know Why Every Merger Ends in Tears 01/19/2026

Don’t Know Why Every Merger Ends in Tears In this episode, we talk about something that sounds extremely boring but is secretly responsible for a lot of the world being the way it is: terrible mergers and acquisitions. Having briefly survived a career in finance, we try to explain why corporate mergers are almost never about innovation, efficiency, or “shareholder value”, and are almost always about a handful of executives making obscene amounts of money while everyone else pays the price. Despite the existential dread baked into all of this, the episode is full of comedy commentary, quirky insights, and offbeat learning that tries to make sense of why these corporate decisions keep repeating themselves. It’s lighthearted education only in the sense that we’re laughing so we don’t scream, bouncing across random topics like climate change, healthcare, beer, and why “cost savings” is just a polite way of saying “people will suffer.” If you’ve ever wondered why things keep getting more expensive, worse in quality, and harder to access while CEOs keep getting richer, this episode might help connect the dots. Important links: 1. ⁠LA Times article on Exxon and Mobil merger – 2. ⁠Pre-merger SEC filing of Exxon – 3. ⁠Post-merger SEC filing of ⁠ExxonMobil – 4. ⁠The Guardian on ExxonMobil as the 5th largest producer of GHG – 5. ⁠NPR on ExxonMobil suing their own shareholders – 6. ⁠Report by The Plastic Waste Makers Index – 7. ⁠One Percent Steps on the Hospital Merger Wave – 8. ⁠Article by the American Economies Liberties Project on hospital mergers – 9. ⁠Study by Washington Centre for Equitable Growth on the implications of hospitals mergers – 10. ⁠About the washing powder cartel case – 11. ⁠Stand Earth’s report on P&G destroying the world – 12. ⁠Article from the Atlantic titled The Downsides of 'Efficiency' – Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39771645

Don’t Know Why We’re Casually Quoting Trauma 01/12/2026

Don't know why Bose hailed Hitler 01/05/2026

Don't know why Bose hailed Hitler This episode is about one of the most uncomfortable, complicated, and rarely discussed chapters of India’s freedom struggle - the time Subhas Chandra Bose and the Free India Legion briefly aligned with Nazi Germany to fight British colonial rule. It’s a story that doesn’t fit neatly into hero worship or outright condemnation, which is exactly why we felt the need to talk about it. We trace how Bose, ousted from the Congress and deeply frustrated with the pace of nonviolent resistance, landed in Berlin and helped form a legion of Indian prisoners of war under the German army. What begins as a strategic gamble slowly reveals its cracks as Nazi racism, propaganda, and indifference to Indian freedom become impossible to ignore. From the legion’s strange existence within the Wehrmacht and later the SS, to the deeply uncomfortable reality of Hitler’s contempt for Indians, this is offbeat learning at its most morally messy. Despite the heaviness of the subject, this is still Don’t Know, Do Care, which means there’s comedy commentary, moments of dark humour, and the occasional reminder that history is often shaped by desperation, ego, and very bad timing. It’s lighthearted education only in the sense that we’re trying to understand something heavy without pretending it’s simple, blending serious history with the kind of random topics that make you pause and rethink what you thought you knew. Important links: A website dedicated to Netaji - The Indian Legion of the German Armed Forces: Between Political Calculation and Nazi Propaganda - The Last Chapter of the Indian Legion - A letter to Jewish organisations by Sarmila Bose - Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945) by Prof. Satadru Sen - Our recommendation of the week - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39603475

Don't know why art heist is (practically) a hobby 12/22/2025

Don't know why art heist is (practically) a hobby In this episode, we fall headfirst into the gloriously stupid, occasionally brilliant, and deeply human world of art heists, sparked by the now-infamous 2025 Louvre heist. Yes, that Louvre. The one with the Mona Lisa, absurd security, and apparently a blind spot for people wearing high-vis jackets. What begins as an exploration of the genius of the heist quickly turns into a full-blown spiral through history’s slickest, dumbest, and most unintentionally hilarious museum robberies. The episode also celebrates the truly unhinged side of art crime with thefts so ridiculous they feel like rejected sitcom plots, while asking the obvious question: why do people even do this? The answer, it turns out, is a chaotic mix of ego, organised crime, bad planning, and watching National Treasure one too many times. Wrapped in comedy commentary, packed with quirky insights, and disguised as lighthearted education, this is classic offbeat learning territory, where random topics somehow make perfect sense. Important links: 1. All the relevant deets of the recent Louvre heist - 2. Some of the most notorious museum heists throughout history - 3. Greatest heists of all time - 4. Some of the most embarrassing art heists of all time - 5. The Sneakiest, Dumbest, and Craziest Art Heists in History - 6. Even more information about the Louvre heist - 7. The burned Van Gogh paintings - 8. The largest burglary in English legal history - 9. The New Year's Eve heist - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39484800

Don't know why 'The Sun' doesn't shine 12/15/2025

Don't know why 'The Sun' doesn't shine In this episode, we wade into the swampy, sensational, deeply unserious world of The Sun, a British tabloid so notorious that calling it a “newspaper” feels like an insult to both news and paper. What started in the 1960s as an optimistic, politically neutral publication meant to reflect “the age we live in” quickly devolved into a right-wing chaos machine famous for Page 3 girls, fabricated scandals, culture-war tantrums, and front-page headlines bold enough to make even WhatsApp forwards blush. It’s the perfect playground for our brand of comedy commentary, because honestly, The Sun makes parody redundant. We dig into the history behind its rise and rot. And because this tabloid never met a boundary it didn’t want to violate, we also explore its long list of invented stories, sexist attacks, the Hillsborough disaster, Elton John libel cases, and that one deranged Meghan Markle column that genuinely made the whole country break character. The Sun has delivered decades of material that proves offbeat learning doesn’t always have to be wholesome. This is the story of a paper that shaped a nation, ruined a few reputations (and its own), and is now slowly being outlived by memes. If you love random topics wrapped in skepticism, humour, and just enough outrage to keep things spicy, this deep dive into Britain’s most infamous tabloid is very much your episode. Important links: 1. Link to Kapow's IGT episode - 2. About The Sun’s “coverage” of the Hillsborough tragedy – 3. YouGov UK survey on trust on media – 4. ‘Historic Newspapers’ about The Sun – 5. The pre-fucked version of The Sun – 6. ‘The Conservation’ speaking about the change of ownership of The Sun – 7. Wikipedia of The Sun – 8. BBC’s coverage of The Sun swinging from the Left to the Right and back repeatedly – 9. The Guardian’s coverage of The Sun being its sexist, disgusting self – 10. ‘Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda’ book – 11. The Sun’s sexist attack on Meghan Markle – Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39398320

Don't know how the NYT picks "Bestsellers" 12/08/2025

Don't know how the NYT picks "Bestsellers" In this episode, we dive into the mysterious, manipulative, and occasionally unhinged world of the New York Times Bestseller List, that shiny sticker every book seems to have, even the ones that read like rejected BuzzFeed headlines. What starts as casual airport doomscrolling quickly unravels into a full-blown investigation: Who actually decides this list? Why is the methodology secret? And is it really possible to buy your way onto it? (Short answer: lol yes.) It’s comedy commentary meets publishing nerdery, packed with quirky insights about how the book world really works, plus the kind of offbeat learning and lighthearted education that only comes from three people realising the entire system might be held together with vibes and Excel sheets from 1997. If you’ve ever wondered why every acquaintance suddenly claims to be a “bestselling author,” this episode finally explains it, or at least makes you laugh through the confusion while we pretend to understand the NYT’s secret sorting hat. Important links: 1. What does #1 NYT Bestseller even mean - 2. The quintessential Wikipedia page - 3. NYT's 'secret methodology' - 4. Another viewpoint on the NYT Bestseller list - 5. NYT Bestseller list explained - 6. Some shady truths about the NYT Bestseller list - Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39289205

Don't know how Israel's PR outruns its reality 12/01/2025

Don't know how Israel's PR outruns its reality In this episode, we dive into the wild, worldwide PR machine known as Hasbara, Israel’s official strategy to shape global opinion, rewrite narratives, and “explain” things that probably shouldn’t have to be explained. What starts off as a lesson in public diplomacy quickly turns into a crash course in how coordinated messaging, mass disinformation, and a whole lot of lobby money can bend reality in real time. Somehow, all of this still makes room for quirky insights, offbeat learning, and the kind of comedy commentary you’d expect when three confused people attempt to decode one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines on the planet. It’s messy, infuriating, and unexpectedly educational. If you’ve ever wondered why the same talking points echo across headlines, think tanks, comment sections, and your uncle’s WhatsApp forwards, this episode might finally explain. Important links: 1. Wikipedia talking about Hasbara – 2. The New York Times article on Hasbara – 3. The wonderful ad man, Carl Spielvogel – 4. About the baby cosplaying a suicide bomber – 5. Haaretz article on the baby photographed – 6. Jewish Voice for Liberation explaining how Hasbara works – 7. Israel’s new funding into Hasbara – 8. To volunteer with Tech for Palestine – 9. Kapow’s Instagram handle – Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen! /episode/index/show/87bb72d6-c9c3-4f23-a172-ed898c844eb7/id/39216100