DHWANI is Bengaluru's independent podcast network — six original shows across business, culture and true stories, told in English and Hindi, produced end-to-end in our own studio.
Filter by what you care about, the language you think in, and how long your commute is. Every show is produced in-house at our Indiranagar studio.
Hindi
● 84 episodes · weekly
Desi business explained in seedhi Hindi — UPI, kirana economics, franchise math and the money habits of real Indian founders. Har Mangalvaar, ~32 minute.
English
● 112 episodes · weekly
Long-form interviews with the operators building India's next decade — founders, CFOs and the quiet people behind Bengaluru's IPO pipeline. ~48 minutes of signal.
Hindi
● 56 episodes · fortnightly
Sheher ki galiyon se uthti kahaniyan — Basavanagudi ke kansen, Shivajinagar ke attar-wale, aur wo sangeet jo Bengaluru ko Bengaluru banata hai. ~41 minute.
English
● 97 episodes · weekly
A fast, funny 27-minute walk through Bengaluru's week — food, gigs, traffic philosophy and why Church Street never sleeps. Two hosts, one strong decoction.
Hindi
● 73 episodes · weekly
Asli case files, court records aur un logon ke interview jo wahan the. Bengaluru aur Karnataka ke bhoole hue crime, zimmedari se report kiye gaye. ~38 minute.
English
● 24 episodes · monthly
One person, one lifetime, fifty-five unhurried minutes. First-person histories from Russell Market traders, mill workers, freedom-era families and more.
Tap any episode — the player stays with you while you scroll. Waveform, speed and 15-second skips included, exactly like your podcast app.
Every DHWANI episode goes through the same four hands-on stages. It's why listeners stay till the last minute.
Court records, RTI replies, market walks and phone calls. Our researchers file a source sheet before a single mic goes live.
2 researchers per showTracked in our treated Indiranagar room on broadcast condensers — hosts and guests in the same room, never over a laptop call.
48kHz / 24-bit mastersTwo edit passes, original score cues and archival audio cleared before mixing. Hindi and English episodes get equal polish.
Human editors, zero AI voicesPublished to every major app with full transcripts, chapters and show notes — plus a WhatsApp drop for our subscriber circle.
Transcripts on every episodeReporters, researchers and one reformed chartered accountant. Hover a card to read their story.
Quit a Big-4 audit desk in 2019 to explain money in the language his mother uses. 84 episodes later, kirana owners send him voice notes with balance-sheet questions.
Fifteen years on the business desk, three IPO cycles covered from the inside. Her superpower: getting CFOs to say the quiet part on the record.
Oral-history researcher who has recorded 300+ hours of Bengaluru's elders. She believes every street has one song and one secret.
College quiz partners turned co-hosts. One plans every minute; the other derails it beautifully. The city writes half their script every week.
Fourteen years on the crime beat across Karnataka. Keeps a wall of case indexes behind his desk and reads every FIR twice before recording.
Documentary producer who swapped cameras for microphones. Sits with a subject for a full day before the first question is ever asked.
Searchable, quotable, screen-reader friendly. Here's a live excerpt from The Ledger Ep 112 — press play on the right rail of your imagination, or the real player below.
Priya: Everyone watches the ring-the-bell moment. Nobody watches the eighteen months before it — and that's where this city does its real work.
Guest: By the time a Bengaluru company files its DRHP, there's usually a three-person team that has lived inside a data room for a year. No LinkedIn posts. No panels.
Priya: Walk me through the room. What does an IPO factory actually look like at 11 pm on a Tuesday?
Guest: Whiteboards, cold dosa, and a lawyer asking the same question the fourth time — deliberately. The fourth answer is the honest one.
Priya: You've now taken four companies from Koramangala to the exchange. What breaks first — the model or the founders?
Guest: The calendar. Always the calendar. The model survives contact with SEBI; the founder's sleep schedule doesn't.
Priya: Let's talk about the anchor book — because that's where the quiet phone calls happen…
Broadcast condensers, a floating floor, and editors who treat silence as a first-class instrument. This is why brands trust our ad reads and why guests forget the mic is on.
One live room, one edit bay, a wall of acoustic foam and more coffee than is medically advisable.
Host-read ads on DHWANI don't sound like ads — they sound like a friend's recommendation. Here's the audience you'd be talking to.
The same treated room, engineer and gear we use for the network — bookable by the hour for your podcast, voice-over or audiobook.
Crime Kahani is the only reason my Outer Ring Road commute feels short. Vikrant's research puts news channels to shame.
We ran a Deep Cut campaign for our D2C brand. The host-read on The Ledger outperformed our entire Instagram spend that month.
Booked Podcast Suite A for my indie show. Engineer set levels in ten minutes and the raw tape needed almost no cleanup. Worth every rupee.
Paisa Vasool ne mere papa ko mutual funds samjha diye — jo main das saal me nahi kar paya. Ghar ka official Tuesday ritual.
Testimony's Russell Market episode should be in school syllabi. I sent it to my grandmother and we talked for two hours after.
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Bengaluru 560038 — 6 min walk from Indiranagar Metro (Purple Line).
| Mon – Fri | 10:00 am – 9:00 pm |
| Saturday | 10:00 am – 6:00 pm |
| Sunday | Closed (editing only) |
Everywhere you already listen — Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, JioSaavn and via RSS. Every episode also lives on this site with a full transcript, and the built-in player below works right here.
Yes — most of our studio clients are first-timers. Add the sound engineer add-on and they'll handle levels, mic technique and a pre-session soundcheck. You just bring your voice and your notes.
Campaigns start at ₹35,000 for host-read pre-rolls (₹280 CPM) and go up to ₹6.5L for a full-season title sponsorship with category exclusivity. Ping us on WhatsApp with your budget and audience — we'll suggest the honest fit, even if it's the smaller package.
Twice a year, in January and July. We greenlight one pilot per cycle, fund the first three episodes, and split revenue with the creator. Hindi, English, Kannada and Kanglish pitches all welcome.
Always. We don't splice in agency-produced spots. Hosts test the product first and keep a veto — it's why the reads convert, and why we occasionally say no to money.
Filter Coffee records with a small live audience on the last Friday of every month — 20 seats, free, first come first served on our WhatsApp list. Other shows record closed-door.
