Sumit Sourav is a stand up comedian who was a star in the Television Comedy Show, The Great Indian Laughter challenge and is currently taping a show for Amazon Prime. In this episode he tells me his story which involves college ragging, moving cities, taking 3 hour long train journeys to tell jokes and the importance of pushing yourself forward.

Shridhar Venkataramana is a stand up comedian based out of Mumbai. He is known for his one liners, quick wit and very prolific joke writing on Twitter which has helped him in building a following. In this episode I have a conversation on how he balances his corporate job (which he likes) along with his comedy, on writing controversial jokes and on why he feels comedy is similar to Bollywood.

Kjeld Sreshth is a stand up comedian from Bangalore with whom I started stand up with. His comedy is fresh and his style is like no one else. In this podcast we talk about dealing with anger, about his love for cooking, about being narcissistic, about what makes a stand-up video great and about the constant yet annoying process of unlearning.

In this episode I sit down with Mumbai based Stand Up comedian Govind Menon and have a conversation about comics doing non stand up gigs  and about moving to Mumbai to further one's stand up career.

Bhavish Ailani is a stand-up comic based out of Mumbai. In this episode, I sit with him and have a conversation about how stand-up comedy is such a privileged profession, about the validity of self-deprecating humour, about how limiting fear is and how working out regularly has helped his stand up.

In this episode I sit down with Anand Rathnam who is a stand-up comedian based out of Bangalore. We talk about doing bad rooms just to get paid, the value of open mics, about riffing on stage to write bits, about re-writing old bits and how he hates comics. Hope you guys enjoy this episode.

Owing to my lack of a guest on this episode, I speak about what I learned from my reading challenge which I undertook with myself early this year. The Books I cover in this episode are - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, The Wright Brothers by David McCullough and Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Fransec Miralles. For the complete list of books I read this year, I've put it as a post on my Instagram Account which is - https://www.instagram.com/paulrupen/

Sudarsan Ramamurthy a.k.a Soda is a stand up comedian, storyteller and author of two books - Travelling Light and Domestic International school. In this episode he sits with me and we have a super lighthearted conversation revolving around our school stories.

In this episode I sit down with my Dad, Krishnan Vasudevan who is a psychologist and counselor. In this podcast episode he talks about Positive Psychology and in specific 'Happiness', a topic which he has been both researching and teaching. We talk about the 5 elements of positive psychology, about setting meaningful goals that don't disappoint, the value of relationships and how one can increase their set point of happiness regardless of their circumstances.

Naveen Thomas is of the biggest guitarists to come out of India. He is signed with Gibson Guitars since 2008 and has played/plays with some of the biggest and best bands to come out of India including Galeej Gurus, Junkyard Grove, The Raghu Dixit Project and Suraj Mani and the Tatva Trip. In this episode he tells me how he quit his corporate job to purse music as a career, about what motivates him to play music, about what he looks for while playing with another musician, about his approach to teaching music and why he feels being a musician is only 40% about playing music and 60% about dealing with people.