The FunTech Podcast — Season 4 featured episodes
Season 4 Featured Episodes GPS, UPI, TRIANGLES ONE RULE TO BIND THEM ALL?
ft SANJAY PUROHIT

"...relevant technology issues in a simplified and fun-filled manner."

Subhojit Roy Listener Review, Apple Podcasts
  • What If the Best Engineers Never Made It to
    IIT? ft. Kavi Arya

    Best name-recognition guest - e-Yantra, IIT Bombay Feb 2025

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  • Tally-Ho and the Order of the Stolen Menu ft. Vikram Achanta

    Best range + production polish - Jun 2025

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  • Weird Canine Requests ft. Shirin Dhabhar

    Best host chemistry - the FunTech personality on show. May 2025

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12 Honours  |  5 Award Programmes  |  Three Straight Years on the Golden Mikes Podium

India

Gold • Winner

E4M Golden Mikes

Best Podcast / Audio Series
— Technology.
The podium arc: Silver '24 →
Bronze '25 → Gold '26

2026
India

Winner

Best Technology Podcast

Indian Audio Summit &
Awards
— won within the
show's first year.

2023
International

Award of Excellence

Communicator Awards

Best Individual Episodes
Science & Tech category, 31st
Annual (AIVA). The show's
international credential.

2025
India

Indian Audio Summit & Awards

  • Best Technology Podcast — 2024
  • Best Technology Show — 2025

PodMasters — HT Smartcast × Mint

  • Best Science & Tech Podcast — 2023
  • Winner — 2024 & 2025
International & Global

Communicator Awards 2025

  • Award of Distinction — Best Co-Hosts, Features category (AIVA, 31st Annual)

People's Choice Global Podcast Awards

  • Top 5 — Technology, 2024 · Listener-voted, worldwide
Dr. Samiran Ghosh with podcast awards

The Milestone  |  100 Episodes

The 5.8 Percent Club

Fewer than 6 in 100 podcasts ever publish a hundredth episode, roughly half are gone by episode three and only 11% see fifty. The funnel tells it in four bars and one gold one – with the tech-genre and three-calendar caveats beside it, and the hosts' fresh figures (100+ episodes, 50K+ listeners, 15K monthly downloads, 5M+ Season-4 views, 20+ platforms) now quotable, receipts filed.

Fewer than 6 in 100 podcasts ever publish a hundredth episode. This one just did in the fastest-expiring genre, on three co-hosts' calendars, across four and a half years.

Every Show Starts
100%
Survive Episode 3
53%
Reach Episode 50
11%
Reach Episode 100
5.8%
3TB Today
100+ eps

Survival figures: PodMatch & industry podfade analysis, 2025-26 · Market context: India podcast industry reports

The 100-Episode Rule.

Practitioners judge nothing before episode 100 — and successful podcasters are ~7× more likely to have crossed it (74% vs 10%).

Tech knowledge expires fastest.

A 2022 AI episode is a museum piece by 2024. Staying credible for 4½ years is the real production cost.

Three calendars, one show.

Co-ordination failure is a leading cause of podfade in multi-host formats. 3TB synced three working professionals, 100+ times.

In the world's third-largest market.

~105M Indian podcast listeners and thousands of new shows a year — here, longevity is the differentiator.

Some of the Humans We've Bantered With

Every name below has sat across the three of us — and survived.

Caricature of the three podcast hosts

Amish Tripathi

One of India's best-selling authors of the Shiva Trilogy

Sanjay Purohit

CEO & Chief Curator, Centre for Exponential Change

Kavi Arya

Founder of e-Yantra — IIT Bombay's robotics-education movement

Vikram Achanta

Founder, Tulleeho

Shirin Dhabhar

Globally accredited canine behaviourist

Aranya Sahay

Director, Humans in the Loop — Best Film, Bengaluru Intl. Film Festival

In the Press

The 2023 award announcement was carried by Business Standard, The Print, Dailyhunt and News Chronicle.

Via ANI syndication — labelled as such, because a buyer who checks will notice anyway.

100+ episodes — the 5.8% club
5M+ Season 4 views on YouTube
50K+ listeners · 15K audio downloads a month
20+ platforms worldwide
3TB Ganpati Special illustration

Take the Banter Somewhere

Live episodes and conference specials, sponsorship slots, and a guest chair for people with a story worth interrupting each other over. Curious what you'd be booking?

The three hosts in conversation

Co-hosted with Nilesh Patankar & Sheetal Choksi

the show's home: 3techiesbanter.com  |  3techiesbanter@gmail.com