The Openhouse Podcast Openhouse

Schooling will never be the same again. We can thank the pandemic for that. This final episode, we have a student host, Teesta Banerji, in conversation with Maria Hashmi and Roshan Agarwal. They talk about what they miss about school, what they would change and whether we really need 14 years of school.

Climate change is real and Gen Z understands this. This episode, we talk to Deeksha Madhu, an 11th grader from Bangalore, and Nathan Marcus, who completed school this year, about what they can do about the environment and the sense of hopelessness they feel. 

Skinny waist. Long hair. No body hair. There is immense pressure on women to look a certain way. This episode, we talk to two students, Mayurakshi Sarkar and Niharika Verma about body positivity and what it really means to be comfortable in your own skin. 

The last two years of school can be stressful. There are board exams to give and then the pressure of getting into college. Admission processes are long and tedious and there is the anxiety of board exams at school. In this episode, Openhouse is in conversation with Enakshi Chatterjee, currently studying at the Technical University of Munich and Indranil Basu, a 12th grader all set to go to college. They talk about how to deal with this pressure and anxiety from experience and also answer some of the questions students commonly have about the admissions process.

Reading the news can be stressful. Or confusing. Or annoying. Especially when the news is all about coronavirus, death and loss. This episode, we talk to Associate Editor at Newslaundry, Meghnad S, and two Openhouse students, Kanishk Agarwal and Zahra Javed, about how they feel about the news and how they consume it responsibly.

No, you're not "too distracted" or "too hyper". It's called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and you're not the only one with it. This episode, Openhouse is in conversation with Aranya Johar, an Indian poet, and Abhishek Kumar, from the Openhouse founding team on what it means to be a student with ADHD and how they navigate everyday life.