YouthCast Swayam Sidh Tripathy, Samarth Pal, Yajat Gulati

The hosts are in conversation with young changemakers from their own school about their initiatives to help save the environment and have a discussion about how people listening can help make a positive change as well. 

In the backdrop of disproportionate attention being given to the seemingly trivial case of 23-year-old Aryan Khan being caught with 13 grams of cocaine on a cruise ship while a 3000 Kilogram drug bust at the port of a businessman with close ties to the Modi Government went unreported by the mainstream media, the hosts ask the question: Why does our news suck?

On Monday, October 4th, Facebook and the Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Instagram were down for over 8 hours raising concerns across the globe. On the 31st episode of the YouthCast Podcast, the hosts discuss Facebook's monopolistic behaviour which has been characterised by many as destructive to free society and democracy in the backdrop of the global outage.

We dive into an update on the personal lives of the hosts in this episode! Listen in as we talk about school, college, military service and much more!

In the past few months, many students of The United World College (UWC) of South-East Asia, an institution that praises itself for its diversity, have come out with their experiences facing racism and discrimination within the school. The Instagram account @uwcdobetter (https://www.instagram.com/uwcdobetter/) has been at the forefront of highlighting these experiences. On this episode of the YouthCast podcast, we talk to Mr Nick Alchin, Head of Campus at UWCSEA East, to understand his take on the issues plaguing the school.

In this episode of the YouthCast Podcast, we discuss the possibility of vaccine mandates in schools across Singapore and the world with Nick Alchin, Head of Campus at UWCSEA East - an international school in Singapore with over 4000 students. Listen to find out how soon we can expect such mandates and what their implications would be on the future of education.