In the grand tradition of turning every minor achievement into a national holiday, Indians are treating Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s casual chatIn the grand tradition of turning every minor achievement into a national holiday, Indians are treating Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s casual chat with Elon Musk as the ultimate diplomatic coup. Forget the UN Security Council; this is the real flex these days. On November 30, 2025, Kamath dropped the full two-hour episode of his “People […]
In the grand tradition of turning every minor achievement into a national holiday, Indians are treating Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s casual chat with Elon Musk as the ultimate diplomatic coup.
Forget the UN Security Council; this is the real flex these days. On November 30, 2025, Kamath dropped the full two-hour episode of his “People by WTF” podcast featuring the world’s richest man. Just like that, every X handle from Mumbai to Manipur began waving the tricolor.
“India 1, Pakistan 0!” crowed one viral post, as if securing a podcast slot is the equivalent of solving any bilateral issue the neighbors harbor. In the age of social media metrics, nothing screams “superior civilization” like bagging an interview with a guy who tweets about his kids like they’re Pokémon cards.
The episode, which racked up 1.5 million YouTube views in hours, was billed as a “different conversation,” which migh very well be a code for “Elon being Elon, but with chai vibes.”
Kamath, the Bengaluru dropout who turned a call-center gig into a billion-dollar brokerage, played the perfect foil. He began by asking about Musk’s “Roman legion of children” (11 and counting, apparently), his obsession with the letter ‘X’ (“Honestly, sometimes I wonder…”), and whether work will become “optional” in an AI utopia.
Musk, ever the showman, obliged with gems like praising Indian talent (“America has benefited immensely from talented Indians”) and defending H-1B visas against “misuse” by outsourcing firms, a subtle nod to the very ecosystem Kamath embodies.
