The Great Indian Brain Rot Quotes

“In fact, on a metro ride once, I overheard a conversation between two old men. One of them said, quite confidently, 'Yeh to sab farzi hai bhaisaab. Pehla podcast toh Sanjay aur Dhritarashtra ke beech mein hua tha Mahabharat mein. (This is all fake, sir. The first podcast happened between Sanjay and Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata.)' This gentleman, I reckon, might one day make a perfect guest on a podcast.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“...the true assassin of a viral lie is not rigorous fact-checking. It is, ultimately, fatigue.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“Even nonsense, in its wild, chaotic form, carries a strangely human weight. It slips past logic, bypasses articulation and strikes something primal, something we don't fully understand but instinctively recognise.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“Perhaps love is nothing more than an exercise in orchestrated chaos - an attempt to turn life into an event, a spectacle of ruin and repair. For some, love is the cyclone they crave, the storm they invite, because calmness feels too much like death.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“The sight of a foreign backpacker no longer feels like an event, and thank god for that. Indifference is its own quiet kind of progress.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“While Ojha has the energy of a last-minute rally, Divyakirti, on the contrary, embodies the stillness of someone who has already penned the resignation letter. If teaching styles were analogous to batting in cricket, Ojha would be Sehwag and Divyakirti, Tendulkar.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“...the internet has profoundly decentralised propaganda.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“The internet is a space where the subconscious dirt of society rises to the surface and congeals in the form of memes.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“...facts are clunky. Myths, on the other hand, go viral.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“The internet is a space where the subconscious dirt of society rises to the surface and congrats in the form of memes.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“Chaturvarna system... is the foundational bureaucracy of Indian humiliation.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“I once asked Arpit Bala, an influencer with a brutally loyal following, about the resentment felt by office-goers against self-employed content creators. He spoke of how, even as they like being featured in his Instagram 'lives', guests wonder why such casual conversations, the kind they used to have in their school days, are so hyped on social media. 'Exactly... You talked like this. You joked like this. You had that energy of being completely ridiculous like a child. But you won't do it now. Why? If it's that easy, do it. Quit the job and try. But you won't. Because you're in a fucking soulless job, and you've been conditioned to live a certain kind of serious life. Your risk appetite is dead. The backbencher version of you is gone. And you can't perform that self anymore. It takes guts to act your youth again in front of a camera and be completely free,' he argued.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“In a country where the civil services exams are treated as sacred, the only affairs one is encouraged to pursue deeply are current affairs.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“For some, love is the cyclone they crave, the storm they invite, because calmness feels too much like death.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India