We must confess, and right at the beginning, that we are learning to overcome our biases. In whatever way, that is. So, when we recently came across author-columnist Chetan Bhagat’s just launched podcast show, deeptalk with Chetan Bhagat, where he invites a list of accomplished guests for a heart-to-heart conversation about how they made it big in life, we decided to give it a listen. Somewhere, we feel this trope has run its course, especially post the pandemic, when we were exposed to a glut of podcasts that hoped to achieve the same: Tell us a good life story.

Incidentally, Bhagat also birthed the idea for this show during the lockdown. “I was stuck in a room during the lockdown, and of course there were no on-ground motivational talks [then]. Hence, I decided to make a YouTube channel and did some motivational videos. It soon evolved with me inviting more guests on Zoom. After getting a good response, I decided to take it more seriously and started a proper podcast,” Bhagat shares in an email interview. The idea, he says, is to get “India’s biggest achievers and true stars… people you may not normally have access to in life”.