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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

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? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

We have our first international guest on "When I Was 13" in this episode. Mo Sibyl is a professor of pharmacy at the University of Oklahoma, a podcaster as well as a Koreanophile. Mo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and went to get her PhD in Health Economics, and then take up a teaching job. In this episode, we talk about how life was when Mo was 13, what is Health Economics, and what does it take to do so many things in just 24 hours! So let's hop into our time machine and go to Lagos in 1999 when Mo Sibyl was 13, and her transistor radio was her favorite possession. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

In this new episode of When I Was 13, I catch up with an entrepreneur who is building a STEM based toys startup, Smartivity Labs. Tushar Amin, co-founder at Smartivity, is also a screenwriter & author. His advice for all 13 year-old is to look at fresh opportunities, have fun and not take too much stress! Lets hop onto our time machine to find how the was the world when Tushar was 13, and what got him to look at toys in a different manner altogether. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

When I was your age, we just had one TV channel When I was your age, we would go out and play When I was your age, I would read books every evening instead of watching Youtube If you were born in 2005 or later, how many of you have had your parents say this to you? There. I knew it! It’s true everywhere, from the US to India. Hello, my name is Aarushi Gupta. I am 14 and I stay in Gurugram, near New Delhi, India. I love watching TV shows. I got my smartphone when I turned 13 last year, but I did not realise this wonderful device comes with constant reminders from the parent- about how things were different when they were my age.  Pestered by my parents’ constant reminders, I decided to figure out how the world really was when my parents were 13?  Encouraged by the short-lived TV series Alex, I got curious about podcasting, and then decided that this would the easiest platform for me to figure out how life was for 13 year-olds in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and the 2000s! I took some help from my dad and got in touch with a podcaster to launch my own podcast titled “When I Was 13” in 2018, when I turned, well, 13. With 23 episodes behind me, I have met entrepreneurs, professors, scientists, danseuse, social activists, CEOs, and more, and asked them 13 questions, including   “In which year did you turn 13?” “At 13, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?” “Did you imagine doing what you do today, when you were 13?” And I normally end my show with this question: “What advice would have you have for 13 year olds like me?” I like to believe that my podcast is a time machine. It is a time machine for people, today and tomorrow, to travel back and find what young minds thought and did. It also acts as a fun class to learn some life lessons. And it begins by asking a simple question- “How was your world when you were 13?” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message

In this episode of When I Was 13, I ask Rashi Joshi, a commercial pilot, to hop onto my time machine and go back in time when Rashi was 13.  Rashi turned 13 at the beginning of the 21st century in 2001, and she talks about how New Delhi was in those days, and how she decided to become a pilot. Rashi also talks about how we should speak for ourselves; and yes, she has some tips for all parents to teenagers :-) The image used in this descriptor has been shot by Rashi Joshi from the cockpit. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/when-i-was-13/message