When I was 13 Aarushi Gupta

In this Family season series (Season 3), this week we meet siblings Swathi Bavanaka & Sandeep Bavanaka. 
Swathi is an entrepreneur & founder of EVIBE.IN, an online virtual celebrations app. Sandeep is a cricketer with the Hyderabad team who was also selected for IPL this year, which got cancelled due to covid.
Let's hop into our time machine and go back in time when siblings Sandeep and Swathi were 13 in Hyderabad.


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Yet another episode and yet another inspiration for all of us! 

In this episode of “When I Was 13”, we meet Ruchi Dhona who is the founder of NGO “Let’s Open a Book”. Ruchi quit a promising career with Bain & Company to start her NGO in Spiti Valley. 

Let’s Open a Book helps school going children in remote schools to read a book and ignite the young minds. Ruchi’s NGO helps in setting up libraries in schools in remote areas so that children do not miss out the joy of reading.

So let’s hop onto our time machine and go back to 1996 when Ruchi Dhona was 13 in Kolkata and obviously, enjoyed reading books.

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Hello again! The first guest in this new season of When I Was 13 is someone who has never stopped learning.
We meet Col (Dr) Manorama Bordoloi who joined the Indian Army as a doctor in the Armed Medical Corps during the 1971 India-Pak war. Even after retiring from the army in 2005, Col Bordoloi studied for her fellowship and worked with an NGO.
As I speak with Manu Ma'am about the time when she was 13 in Tirupati in 1962, we are also joined by Manu ma'am's two daughters.
So lets hop onto our time machine.

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My podcast is two seasons and 28 episodes old! During this quarantine due to Covid19, I got to understand how much our friends and family mean to us. Those that we are really close to, we make all efforts to stay in touch, via video, whatsapp or a phone call.
So I decided it will be good to see if my guests, who talk about their childhood, can bring along a family member to discuss how the world was when they were 13.
Do you think it's a good idea?

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We have new soldiers amidst us in these Covid times-doctors and medical support staff. 
In this new episode, we talk to Dr Purba Gupta - an infectious diseases specialist who has been associated with the prestigious Johns Hopkins University.
Dr Purba Gupta talks about growing up in the small town of Chaibasa, and her journey to Lady Harding Medical College in New Delhi, and then further on to the US. We also talk about the future of Coronavirus and how the world might be in a few months from now.
So lets hop into our time machine and travel to Chaibasa in 1989 when Purba was 13.

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It's summer break for me! This week, I get to meet someone who publishes books as part of her job. Shreya Punj is a commissioning editor with Penguin Random House and we talk about her job, how she became an editor after doing engineering.
Shreya talks about the future of reading in a world full of digital content, and shares tips on reading more and more.
Like all my guests, Shreya also hops onto my time machine and goes back to 2006 when she was 13, and spent her time with, what else, books! Shreya's advice to all 13 year-olds is not to worry too much, and if you are a boy, respect women all your life

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