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 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

2. Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies - https://www.livescience.com/2117-time-slow-emergencies.html

3. What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? - https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm

4. All to know about the McCollough Effect - https://www.businessinsider.com/optical-illusion-mccollough-effect-2018-11

5. What Is Capgras Syndrome? - https://www.verywellmind.com/capgras-syndrome-7100791

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!

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 – https://sabrangindia.in/how-rss-denigrated-constitution/

2. ⁠F. Max Muller's translation of the Manusmriti – https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/lawsofmanu00bh/lawsofmanu00bh.pdf

3. ⁠RSS writes a love letter to Manu – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh

4. ⁠RSS continues protesting the Constitution – https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/290919/is-constitution-anti-hindu-or-the-rss-anti-indian.html

5. ⁠Archives of drafting of the Constitution – https://www.constitutionofindia.net/stages-of-constitution-making/

6. ⁠Dakshayani Velayudhan, arguably the most exceptional member of the Constituent Assembly – https://www.constitutionofindia.net/members/dakshayani-velayudhan/

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!

In this episode, we do something deeply unnecessary but impossible to resist: we ruin everyday English phrases for ourselves and, by extension, for you. What starts as a bad day at work filled with people biting bullets, letting cats out of bags, and buttering up bosses turns into a full-blown investigation into why the English language is basically a museum of human suffering disguised as casual conversation.

We trace the surprisingly dark origins of phrases you probably use without thinking; from battlefield amputations and boxing matches to livestock slaughter, medieval scams, naval punishments, and a truly alarming amount of blood. As always, this descent into linguistic chaos comes wrapped in comedy commentary, quirky insights, and a generous dose of lighthearted education, even when the subject matter is anything but light.

If you've ever casually told someone to "pipe down," "read the riot act," or "bite the bullet," this episode will make you pause mid-sentence and reconsider all your life choices.

Important links:

1. The ultimate source for all things idioms - https://www.theidioms.com/

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!

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:

1. A website dedicated to Netaji - https://www.netajisubhasbose.org/
2. The Indian Legion of the German Armed Forces: Between Political Calculation and Nazi Propaganda - https://thewire.in/history/the-indian-legion-of-the-german-armed-forces-between-political-calculation-and-nazi-propaganda
3. The Last Chapter of the Indian Legion - https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/3a3cc0d3-faf4-46fe-87d0-07e0c56c825a/content
4. A letter to Jewish organisations by Sarmila Bose - https://scroll.in/article/1045098/an-apology-to-the-victims-of-the-holocaust-for-the-silence-of-my-great-uncle-subhas-chandra-bose

5. Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945) by Prof. Satadru Sen - https://web.archive.org/web/20050305012751/http://www.andaman.org/book/app-m/textm.htm

6. Our recommendation of the week - https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/your-own-backyard/id1480263708

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!

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 - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/europe/louvre-heist-robbery-suspects-thieves

2. Some of the most notorious museum heists throughout history - https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/10/27/the-louvre-and-other-great-museum-heists

3. Greatest heists of all time - https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/greatest-art-heists-of-all-time-1234583441/van-gogh-singer-laren-museum/

4. Some of the most embarrassing art heists of all time - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/embarrassing-art-heist-1606585

5. The Sneakiest, Dumbest, and Craziest Art Heists in History - https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-10-wildest-art-heists-from-around-the-world

6. Even more information about the Louvre heist - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo

7. The burned Van Gogh paintings - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/17/dutch-art-heist-paintings-burned

8. The largest burglary in English legal history - https://theweek.com/63246/how-the-real-hatton-garden-robbery-played-out

9. The New Year's Eve heist - https://rehs.com/eng/2024/03/still-missing-the-new-years-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!