अकाद-MIC podcast series emerged out of a casual conversation among faculty members of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) over individual journeys that shaped their academic trajectories. What emerged out of this lunch meeting on a rainy day in August 2024 was a fascinating auto-ethnographic exchange in a storytelling fashion that went beyond the usual narrative of academic life. Thus, the possibility of initiating a podcast series that can document the shaping of such dimensions, encounters, initiatives, experiments, or relatively obscure experiences in the life of an academic emerged.