Take a pause with Varun Duggirala

If you’re in the mood for a meaty conversation with lots of takeaways and tons to ponder on, you are at the right place. One of the leading podcast hosts in India, Amit Varma has also been a journalist, author, entrepreneur and even a professional poker player! As a podcast host (of the “The Seen and the Unseen”), I feel he embodies what is best about this medium, which is being able to go really...

Have you ever been stuck with a crucial choice that could alter your path in life? Jeff Bezos came up with an interesting framework when he found himself at a crossroad in life. A great listen 🎧 for some motivation on a Monday morning ... have a great week everyone and catch you on Friday for a brand new conversation episode for a dose of inspiration. These episodes are brought to you in collabor...

With over 7 Million+ online followers/subscribers across social media platforms, a chart topping podcast and a series of successful entrepreneurial ventures, Ranveer Allahbadia has become the social media phenomenon to follow – as a creator, entrepreneur & someone who projects positivity and motivation into the world around him. So, to begin “The Varun Duggi Show”, I thought, who better than Ranve...

Think of the first thing you see in every Star Wars movie... the scrolling prelude!! Ever wondered how that came to be? The answer might surprise you. listen to the episode to find out. #uselessinformation is available on Spotify, JioSaavn and most podcasting platforms. New episodes out every Monday, Wednesday & Friday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/take-a-pa...

Did you know that the humble potato had to go through a rebranding exercise? And that too for a very unusual reason! listen to find out. #uselessinformation is available on Spotify, JioSaavn and most podcasting platforms. New episodes out every Monday, Wednesday & Friday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/take-a-pause-varun-duggi/message

In this episode of #uselessinformation the awesome Ranveer Allahbadia takes us behind the scenes of the WWE and the world of sports entertainment to give us some unique trivia about how it functions but also to give us some insight into what we can learn from it too... like he has. #uselessinformation is available on Spotify, JioSaavn and most podcasting platforms. New episodes out every Monday, W...

We all love Pixar movies, there is a genuine feeling we all get inside us when we watch them.. i cant describe it but it’s a mixture of so many great emotions rolled up into one and it always makes me happy & warm inside. One of my favourite Pixar movies is “the incredibles”,.. and i recently came across a story that Joy Bhattacharjya tweeted about which spoke of how it came to be made. And this p...

A week ago I watched a video of Michael holding the legendary West Indies cricketer speak at length on racism,.. its one of those pieces that makes u really think about so things around us both past and present and important that all of us watch it. There was also the mention of a person called Lewis H Latimer and i had to know more. And when I did look it up it made me realise that so many things...

Roshan Abbas is one of those people who always has some amazing nuggets of information, I’d go as far as to give him grandmaster status!! . So when I asked him to share one of them for the show he gave us this delightful insight into how the origin of James Bond has actual historical significance... also check out the book he speaks of called “Super fandom” ( I know I’m gonna for sure). #uselessin...

I’ve always found that when we dream we sometimes come up with ideas or solutions that grow to define our lives... and when I was listening to the 2nd episode of the 2nd season of the podcast “Blockbuster” ( it’s a phenomenal show, https://open.spotify.com/show/6nhQUF8rDmBaRjbZp9zgzv?si=kBWwGTRuTpKHaIY3NRLL4w , while this happens in S02E02 , don’t miss a single episode of both seasons) There is a...

Have you ever thought about how we all learnt stuff in school & college and wondered “is this the only way I could have learnt this?” . The answer could lie in VARK, which defines in a very interesting way the ways in which we can all learn depending on what works for us individually. It could totally change your pov on how u can learn! There’s a lot more info on this in a recent podcast episode o...

Viraj Ghelani is the one person who’s made me want to watch Welcome more times than I actually thought I would and also one of the best examples of a younger breed of creators who are having so much fun being their authentic selves and all the random stuff around it... I’ve had him on my other podcast “advertising is dead” and you should listen to that to get a deeper understanding of how he’s gro...

Danish Sait is someone who’s humour I’ve loved for ages mainly because it reminded me of my years in Bangalore and so many of his references made me laugh coz I got exactly where those were coming from. And his recent streak of awesomeness made me want to dig into understanding what useless information he feeds on a whole lot more. #Uselessinformation is available on Spotify, Jiosaavn, Apple podca...

Gaurav Kapur is one of those people who I can always count on to make any conversation interesting because he never likes to have the same conversation twice!! Coz there is always something new to talk about and that’s what makes him a great conversationalist..the fact that he knows in his own words “a little about a lot of things” and have fun while talking about anything. So why wouldn’t I invit...

José covaco is someone who I have long considered the original grandmaster of creating content from randomness. So I thought it would be a lot of fun to get him and his constant collaborator and master of content around randomness in his own right Cyril D’abreo on an episode of Useless information... and honestly not cut anything out coz why edit true randomness.. that’s what’s on this weeks Usele...

Sorabh Pant, the multitalented comedian & author and the person who once had the unique privilege of sharing a desk with me 😜 is one of the most interesting people I’ve met also coz he has such varied interests and some great insights from all of them... his love for cricket and sport in general has a unique spin to it as is his process to write the books he’s written... so he had to be someone t...

Nikhil Chinapa is someone who doesn’t really need any form of introduction... so I’ll skip the standard stuff like MTV icon, the man who helped make electronic music mainstream in India, etc etc.. but what I’ve always known him as is someone who has a deep sense of curiosity for the little things that add depth to any conversation, the stuff that adds a layer to any music track and someone who’s l...

There are things we always wanna do, try or learn about or just spend time consuming which we always put off saying... I’ll do it soon. But there are some who actually have a method to actually build a structure to actually doing the things they wanna do beyond their work-life and regular life...And maybe that’s something to learn from. One such person is Pooja Dhingra the founder and CEO of Le15...

In the first episode of “Useless information with Varun duggirala” Varun talks to Stand up comic ( and all round awesome person ) Rohan Joshi about his love for pop culture, sci-Fi, fantasy fiction and lots more while also figuring out how all this made him better as a comic and generally happier in life. You can Order my book “Everything is out of syllabus: An instruction manual for life & wo...