Challenging Challenges: Recent Episodes
Gayatri
'Challenging Challenges' is a series of interactions with 'challenged' individuals, their families, friends & others who closely interact with them. It aims at creating a space for exploring how things were and are in our society & why and also how it can be to be more inclusive. It also looks to breaking the barriers between the 'Challenged', 'the not so challenged' & persons who can make tremendous difference to their lives. It tries to put across the face that the Disabled are not so different from the Abled that they need to be treated differently. It is hosted by Gayatri Rattan. The episodes will be aired once a month.
Can we control all that is going on?
What do I do when I can't?
An interaction with Ms Urja Kamath gives us a peek into what happens when you are a sportsperson, the younger sibling, in the shadow of another, changing homes & schools and much more. It makes us understand that even such a young person can be (and in this case is) aware of what happens on the inside because of all that is on the outside.
I trust you will enjoy getting to hear more stories and keep coming back for more....
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Hey there, friends!
Welcome to another episode of Challenging Challenges.
In this episode, we move away from the area of Disability to different causes of challenges like Poverty, Lack of support & the likes.
We meet N Vageshwari, currently the Senior Principal at Suprabhat Model School situated in Hyderabad, India. We get to learn a few things from her... so lets dive in!
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Hey hey hey! Its a beautiful day!
And here is the 2nd part of my interaction with the legendary Women's cricketer from India - 1st opener - Shobha Pandit- Mundkur.
I trust you will enjoy getting to hear more of her story and this will keep you coming back for more....
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Hey there friends! Welcome to yet another episode of CC....
This one is connected to Cricket... the game Indians, British, Aussies, West Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, .... are passionate about!
Well... we meet Ms Shobha Pandit-Mundkur. The woman cricketer opener who faced the 1st ball as an Indian player, the first to score a half century, ....
It is fascinating to learn about how she got into cricket, the twists and turns of fate in each ones life, how to deal with the googlies or yorkers that life bowls to us....
So... lets meet Shobha... Join me!
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Hey there! At the outset, let me apologize for not putting out my regular episodes over the last few months. I thought that I would have more time after I retire. But.....
Well... Interviews are going on .... Editing underway for the next... And here comes my unusual one....
Guess what? We meet May who knows me through & through.... She has been with me through thick & thin and was a good one to make me introspect.
Do let me know what you thought of this format, will you?
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Here we meet again! This time with Kalpana Mani-Acharya... A Commerce graduate who through a long journey of introspection and awareness, reached her calling as a Remediator and a Counselor for children with difficulties. We hear the passion, the dreams and hopes that she has for an improved, inclusive society. Join us on this journey!
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An interaction with Ms Beena J Sawant... A person who wanted to study psychology to be best at business - a wannabe businesswoman who became a Child Psychologist and is happy!!
Hear what her thoughts and wishes are for the PWD (Persons With Disabilities which might as well be read as People With Difficulties).
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Join me in my chat with Dr Geetha R Bhatt and learn about the wonderful abilities of some of the Differently abled, how they need to be cared for, what are the challenges of the Special Schools etc etc etc . Dr Geetha is a Carnatic Vocalist and a Veena Player who uses music as part of the Therapy for the persons who need help.
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In Episode #6, we interact with Dr Geetha Bhat who has Music Therapy as part of the interventions she uses for persons whom she helps manage / handle / get over their various problems. Here is a teaser of the same.
In the full episode, you hear of how the interventions help persons with different needs, what challenges she faces in creating the correct interventions for every individual, how each person is unique - just like you & me.... So... Don't forget to listen to the full episode from 27th November 2021.
In this episode, we interact with a person who is a trainer and a counsellor - for the differently abled, the parents & family members as well as the others who interact closely with the families of such abled persons - Gowri Varadarajan. She is based in Mumbai and is an ex-banker who moved to working in her area of passion i.e. SPECIAL EDUCATION and then added the Counselling after seeing the struggles that the families face. A heart to heart chat between 2 people (your next door neighbors, maybe?)... Join, listen and get in touch!
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Some excerpts from the next episode of Challenging Challenges. Here we meet a person who is involved with Counselling & Remediation for persons with Learning & other challenges and their families - both for the affluent as well as those in the economically poorer strata in our society. The full episode airs on 27th October 2021.... Listen in....
An interaction between Pratibha Jois & Gayatri Rattan - where Pratibha brings to the table her experiences of working in the Public schools in the USA with the Special children or Children with Special needs as the Differently Abled children are referred to there. It gives us an insight to how things are there out there and can give us a parameter against which we can assess the conditions in India to find and incorporate what suits us best.... The best of 2 worlds!!
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The rest of the interaction with Sudha, Gurudath and later, Kushal, forms this, the 3rd episode of Challenging Challenges - a podcast hosted by Gayatri Rattan.
This episode looks at how with the determination of the middle class parents and the unstinting hard work by Kushal, he achieves great heights in his swimming career. And also, how this makes him the independent person that he now is.
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This, the second episode of CHALLENGING CHALLENGES is an interaction between Sudha & Gurudath - parents of a child with Downs Syndrome and me, Gayatri Rattan. Together, we take a journey back over a couple of decades to learn about how they dealt with the various problems due to Kushal being a Downs Syndrome child. Over this and the next episode where we will be joined by Kushal, himself, we will try and understand what a person with Downs feels about us as a society and his achievements, hopes and aspirations.
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This is a teaser to the 2nd Episode of the podcast Challenging Challenges hosted by Gayatri Rattan.
In this episode, we meet Uma Rajan... one of the many Physically Disabled persons in Mumbai. Uma was born with a weaker / underdeveloped left hand and deformity in her neck & chest areas and a sharp mind.
Despite her obvious problems, Uma worked in a Bank for 20 years from 1977 to 1997. She also took over the running of the factory her father had started, on his passing in 1986 - till 2014.
She was always spiritually inclined and also drawn to Alternative Medicines & Healing techniques. Today, she is a Certified Master Teacher of Tao Academy and is synonymous with Soul Healing India.
We hear from her her stories and understand how she was fortunate to have supportive society around her in her family, friends, neighbours, educational & work institutions.
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CHALLENGING CHALLENGES hosted by me, Gayatri Rattan, a Right Hand Above Elbow Amputee.
This podcast is a series of interviews of & interactions with persons labelled as Disabled, and the people who interact with them. Through the episodes we learn of their needs, hopes, aspirations, dreams and hardships, in their own words and voices. It aims at bridging the gap between the populations of the persons labelled as Disabled and the rest of the world. At merging them all into a wholesome, vibrant, compassionate, understanding society.
The problems faced by the Disabled need to be discussed in every strata of society and the solutions applied to make the change. And through this medium, I hope that you, my discerning listeners and influencers, will join hands in making this single set of voices into a movement at the grassroots, thereby bringing to life the society we wish for.