Voices of Reality

Today, we talked to Samaira Guleria. We talked to her about writing, motivation, mental health, & more.

"My name is Samaira Guleria and I am 16 years old. I am currently a high school student. I value high moral values towards my family and society. I have a great fortune of working on a variety of truly inspiring projects while network with many influential and creative individuals. I am enthusiastic to exercise my power of expression and look forward to sharing the depth of my ideas and convictions with all of you."

Hosted by Ananya Bhattacharya.

Keshav Tiwari is a class XII student at the Doon School Dehradun, pursuing the IBDP curriculum. Apart from being an avid debater, dancer, MUNer, and writer, he loves engaging in deep, meaningful conversations regarding issues of pertinence, and philosophy. As a feminist, he talks of the movement as one of gender equality and states the need for greater involvement of men in the feminist movement. We talked to him about mental health, leadership, feminism, social change and more. Hosted by Mayank Agrawal.

This episode we talked to Ms Aarohi Joshi. A dog lover who firmly believes that to teach is to learn twice over. Hoping to become a better version of herself and hoping to shape better human beings for the future, Aarohi has constantly worked towards bringing about social change, from working with the Make a Difference (MAD) foundation to currently teaching toddlers. We talked to her about social change, teaching & mental health. Hosted by Rajveer Singh Dhingra (YouniteUp)

Today we talked with Ms Stuti Kuthiala. Ms Kuthiala is an English teacher of the ISC & IB curriculum at The Doon School for the past 20 years. During that time, she has been a Housemaster, and has been for the past 4 years, the Deputy Head of Pastoral Care. Before joining The Doon School, she was also an Editor for Penguin books. We talked about boarding schools, teaching, mental health, feminism & more! Hosted by Mayank Agrawal.

This episode, we talked to Ms. Saakshi Tikku. Ms. Saakshi Tikku is a psychologist practicing in India for nearly a decade and has worked as a therapist and an educator for developing social emotional skills within educational communities. We talked to her about mental health, stigma, belief systems and more! Hosted by Mayank Agrawal.

In this episode, we spoke to Armaan Verma. Armaan Verma is an undergraduate student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has written for several magazines and other publications, throughout his time in The Doon School, and at his university, but has also contributed to literary magazines and newspapers like The Skinny and ALMA Magazine. He currently works for NewsLaundry, an online news website, as a research Intern. He says he’ll write pretty much anything, given enough coffee and ink. We talked about mental health, living abroad, cultures & identity. 

Hosted by Mayank Agrawal.

Founders of the Global Awareness organisation- Rida Mumtaz and Sidhant Bharadwaj joined us for a conversation on the impact of social change and the ‘power of a voice’ catch up with their views and learn how they made their organisation a success story. Hosted by Ananya Bhattacharya.

Ms Mansi Zaveri is a female entrepreneur, a mother, and a true believer in ‘explore to learn’. Catch up with our conversation on ‘Teens and failures’ and how getting back up on feet is more important than succeeding.

Hosted by Ananya Bhattacharya.

Vasvi Gupta is a rising sophomore pursuing a double major in Financial Economics and Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York. She has a keen penchant for writing and published her anthology of poems, Penumbras of Pain, when she was 17. Her passion for books drove her to found Project Pustak, a social impact initiative that has set up libraries for the underprivileged in over 45 cities worldwide. We talked about managing yourself & projects, college admissions, transitions & more.

Hosted by Mayank Agrawal & Rajveer Dhingra (YouniteUp).

Ms. Shalini Kedia, the chairperson of The Fragile X Society of India initiated this organisation in the year 2003 with a compassion to support families of children affected with Fragile X Syndrome. Starting with one family, moving to two and three families, she today has a strength of more than a thousand families. Some with one child affected and some with four. They are all over India, most in cities and some in smaller towns. She has strived to extend her knowledge and support to each family who has reached out to her. We talked to her about mental health, intellectual disabilities like autism, education & more.

Hosted by Ananya Bhattacharya.