The Jothi Viknesh Show
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Pickup · Bengaluru 000.0KM
Pull the flag at a stop

The world's first podcast in an autorickshaw.

The host drives. The guest rides. Somewhere between two signals, the real story comes out.

Every episode starts with a pickup.

Your driver

Jothi Viknesh.

Speaker, author, and the guy who once drove an auto 28,000 km solo across India. Now he picks up founders, survivors and achievers, and drives while they talk.

Why this show

Comebacks, not highlight reels.

  • 1
    Unheard stories of resilience.Real people who hit their lowest point and found the way back, in their own words. No scripts, no polish.
  • 2
    Habits you can copy.We dig for the small, daily things that actually got them through, so you can try one tomorrow morning.
  • 3
    More HappySouls.Every ride is proof that people come back. Finish an episode believing you can too.

One question, every ride.

How did you come back from your lowest point?

English, Hinglish, Tamil. No studio. Just the road.

Christopher Nelson

From HMT to Pizza Hut to entrepreneur. The untold story.

59 min rideRidden

Navin Krishnan

Why happiness is a lie, from a man who built his own car.

32 min rideRidden

Sreejith NS

From IBM to Ostrich Mobility: building a company, a family and a life.

47 min rideRidden

Manoj Thelakkat

The truth about modern education.

35 min rideRidden

Quick rides

One minute each. Straight from the passenger seat.

This auto has a mission.

Before the show, it spent three months on the HappySoul Project, carrying free happiness sessions into old age homes, children's homes and cancer wards across Tamil Nadu and Kerala. That is why the doodles stay on.

The mission1 billion smiles.It started as "1 Million Smiles" painted on this auto. The show takes it further: every comeback story that helps one person smile again is a smile they pass on to the next.

Your stop.

New rides drop on YouTube. Want to practise the habits you hear about with people near you? Join a HappySoul Club. Got a comeback story? The passenger seat is open.