New Delhi: The first episode of the much-awaited Season 4 of Duologue with Barun Das, presented by Radico, was released on February 28, 2026. The fourth season of the Duologue series builds on the legacy of the first three, as TV9 Network’s MD & CEO Barun Das sits down with global stalwarts in engaging, eclectic and exclusive conversations that go beyond headlines.
The Duologue conversations transcend the mundane clutter of stagnant ideas that define today’s zeitgeist and aim to inspire change, shedding light on those striving to bring it about. The new season opens on February 28, 2026, with the first episode featuring Das engaged in a conversation with perennial youth icon of India, the captain, always fostering a winning attitude, cricketing legend Sourav Ganguly.
A forum of leaders, for leaders
Das started the episode with what may well be the key aspect that defined his conversation with Sourav Ganguly: “Today is a special day for me as we are going to discuss something which is very close to my heart, which is leadership.” Sourav Ganguly exemplifies it, as Das put it, with “legend and leader” being the two words that spontaneously come up in conversation regarding the cricket legend.
The two then shared their ideas regarding leadership, with Sourav Ganguly making an insightful admission, “I don’t think I was a born leader. I learned over the years about leadership and how to build teams and how to take things forward.” Das then drew a comparison between the world of sports and corporate and how leadership is an important part in both areas. Arguing that while many come in with aspirations of grandeur in both fields, not all reach the top. A leader is different, and both agree that in both fields, it is as much mental prowess that helps as does the physical one.
“Somewehre I often feel that modesty is a little over-glorified in the Indian context, you can be modest but fiercely competitive, and that is the attitude you displayed both on and off the pitch,” Das put in with this characteristic wit and perceptivity, passing the baton to Gangulay, highlighting qualities the captain imbibed and entrenched around him to change the mindset in Indian sports. “Greatness creates humble people,” Gangulay agreed. The exchange, a testament to the inquiry of thought and spirit of exploration, the Duologue has come to stand for.
The episode was also replete with numerous stories of Indian cricket, many of which were steered under the exemplary captainship of Sourav Ganguly. Be it the start of Ganguly’s own career or how he later mentored the other young cricketers who came after it, the conversation was replete with gems of wisdom, advice and humanity that made it truly unmissable.
The conversation steered again and again to leadership, and how sports and corporate leadership have many parallels, as was expected when two titans of leadership came together. Ganguly explained how his “relationship went beyond sports with players” and how the diversity of their personalities was never a problem when it came to leading a team. He then pulled Das into the conversation, relating how he, too, as “such a successful professional” knows that the people one works with become a part of them. They get “included in your system,” Das agreed.
The parallels continued, and Das compared the expectations of management with the episode between Greg Chappell and Ganguly. Ganguly acknowledged how, before Chappell became the India cricket team’s coach, he was a “good friend” to him, but later “he must have got fed by people’s wrong ideas, wrong information, and it didn’t work out.” He further agreed that the situation should ideally not have gotten so bitter, acknowledging that “it was unfortunate.”
The episode between Ganguly and Das is filled with such unmissable anecdotes, many of which would be heard by the public for the first time, a testament to the spirit of the Duologue series, where new ideas ignite as the host and guest engage in a free-wheeling conversation, and an atmosphere of inquiry builds up organically.