T.A.L.K. with Kunal Vasudeva

You know the brands. Now meet the minds behind them. 🎙️

The Bombay Canteen. O Pedro. Veronica’s. Papa’s. And a world of hospitality investments.

Sameer Seth. Yash Bhanage. Aditya Rajaram.

03 entrepreneurs. 03 fascinating journeys. One conversation about ambition, taking risks and building businesses that matter.

🎙️ T.A.L.K. with Kunal Vasudeva

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

What does your coffee have to do with your next holiday?

More than you might imagine.
India is travelling more. Drinking differently. Spending differently. Seeking better experiences. And building entirely new categories around those choices.

We brought Matt Chitharanjan and Indiver Rastogi together to talk about that India.

We go from Blue Tokai and the rise of specialty coffee to the travel boom, infrastructure, AI, entrepreneurship, scale, training and leadership.

But underneath all of it is one story.

Us. And how quickly our aspirations are changing.

Coffee. Travel. The New Indian Consumer.

The new episode of TALK with Kunal Vasudeva is now live on YouTube as well.

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

177 new markets. One changing industry.

If you are starting your career today, hospitality will look very different by the time you graduate.

That is why industry conversations belong in the classroom.

Talk with Kunal Vasudeva feat. Nikhil Sharma, MD & COO, South Asia, Radisson Hotel Group

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

He left while still winning.

Indian Accent was on the world’s lists. Chef Manish Mehrotra was already one of India’s most celebrated chefs.

Then he chose to become a beginner again. “Happily nervous,” as he calls it.

That is the story we wanted the world to hear.

Beginning Again.
T.A.L.K. with Kunal Vasudeva feat. Chef Manish Mehrotra.

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

HARI MARAR • INSIDE BLR T2

THIS EPISODE HAS A GATE NUMBER.

We took T.A.L.K. inside Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, and walked the terminal with the man who runs it.

Hari Marar, MD & CEO of BIAL, has spent nearly two decades shaping one of the world’s finest airports. He and Kunal Vasudeva also go back to their Jet Airways days. That history takes this conversation somewhere most CEO interviews never reach.

Terminal 2. Cargo. Connectivity. Tens of millions of new flyers. The future of Indian aviation, while the airport moves around them.

Shot like a documentary. Told from the inside.

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

India’s middle class carried the weight of a growth story built on the wrong foundation.
40 million income tax filers. Stagnant wages. Rising debt. A consumption engine that is running out of fuel.

Saurabh Mukherjea wrote the book on it. Literally.

T.A.L.K. with Kunal Vasudeva ft. Saurabh Mukherjea, Author of Breakpoint and Founder, Marcellus Investment Managers.

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

Middle income housing in India’s Tier 1 cities. The numbers behind the gap.

A household earning ₹30 lakh a year sits in the top decile of urban earners in India. In Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Gurugram, that income does not service a home loan on a 2BHK within 30 - 60 kilometres of the city centre.

Government housing schemes are designed for households earning below ₹18 lakh annually. Developer inventory in Tier 1 cities is priced for households earning above ₹75 lakh. The bracket in between has no product designed for it.

The hospitality industry sits inside this gap in a specific way. Front office managers, F&B leads, and operations staff earning ₹4 to 15 lakh annually are the operational backbone of India’s hotel economy. The average commute for this cohort in a Tier 1 city runs between three and five hours daily. The industry cost of that commute shows up in attrition, not in any balance sheet line.

On the sustainability question, green building carries a higher construction cost and a lower operational cost over a 20 year asset life. For the middle income buyer, the long term economics favour sustainable construction. The barrier is financing at the construction stage, not the lifecycle logic.

Blueprint 2026 spent one day with students and industry professionals examining these numbers together. The white paper is being written.

The question was simple. Can India build for its own?

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

Season 4 of TALK with Kunal Vasudeva Show begins with a conversation that examines how individuals and societies think about risk, prevention, and long-term responsibility.

Filmed across multiple environments inside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, this episode with Dr Ajay Yadav explores what medicine reveals about decision-making under uncertainty.

👉 Why do individuals delay preventive action even when information is available.

👉 Why do consequences often become visible only when intervention becomes complex.

👉 How does clinical judgement actually operate inside real hospitals.

👉 What role can technology and AI realistically play in improving early detection and follow-up discipline.

Conversations like these shape how we think about leadership, judgement, and capability building within ISH, where preparing individuals for complex environments requires clarity of thought, not only technical knowledge.

Season 4 moves beyond single-setting conversations.

Each episode is filmed across multiple real environments to study one issue in depth.

Featuring
Dr Ajay Yadav
Vice Chairman
Institute of Vascular and Endovascular Sciences
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

TALK with Kunal Vasudeva Show
Season 4

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

He took charge when India’s tech world was shaken.
He stood up when everyone else looked away.

This is CP Gurnani: the force behind Tech Mahindra’s rise after the Satyam collapse, and now the Co-founder & Vice Chairman of AIONOS.

From Neemuch to boardrooms, from trust to technology, from silence to strategy, this conversation goes where business school never did.

Talk with Kunal Vasudeva

Also streaming on YouTube

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality

You will love the Sehgals by the end of this episode.

And here’s why you should watch it:

→ They built it without noise.
No PR. No machinery. Just clarity, consistency, and daily execution.

→ She’s an award-winning, plant-based chef creating ripples around the world.
Every dish, every frame, every detail, driven entirely on her terms.

→ He redefined what luxury hospitality could feel like.
Hotels, residences, brands. The experience became the spotlight because he made it feel that way.

→ They’ve rebuilt more than once.
Career pivots. Country moves. No fallback. Just focus.

→ They built something rare.
A rhythm that works. A partnership that holds. A way of life that makes sense.

This episode is not about food or real estate. It’s about what happens when a family decides to keep showing up.

Meet the Sehgals on 
Talk with Kunal Vasudeva Podcast

Also streaming on YouTube.

As part of Sommet Education, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) stands as India's premier institute for hospitality management and culinary arts, in partnership with Ecole Ducasse and Les Roches. Located in Gurugram, the international campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both fields, delivering a global education guided by esteemed academicians and industry experts.

Check out this podcast in video format on the ISH Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianschoolofhospitality