The Unheard Echoes: Recent Episodes
The Unheard Echoes
This Podcast is a soothing retreat away from judgments and interruptions. Take a break and listen to the stories shared by people like us - The stories which are close to our hearts – the stories that are often left unsaid and unheard. A new story will be here to touch your heart every week. If there’s some story/ incident/ tale/ memory that you want to share or talk about, you can DM us on our Instagram page instagram.com/unheardechoes__ or mail us at theunheardechoes@gmail.com with your story.
There are still too many people out there who don’t know about the LGBTQ community. People who wonder if learning to use correct pronouns would be inconvenient and People who know more misconceptions and stereotypes than the truth.
With this episode, we bring to you four stories, narrated by four people. It’s stories of the community, by the Queer community, by people who are just learning and unlearning, like us. Every day so many people struggle with their identity, learning how to accept themselves. Learning that they are beautiful just the way they are and with this episode, we make a small attempt to spread the feeling.
Narrated by - Sebi shahjan, Suman Kumari, Padma Parija, Purabi Das
"God works in mysterious ways" is an explanation we get more often than we would like.
Our narrator’s childlike curiosity and innocence landed her in hilarious situations time and again. The hypocrisy of the social conventions puts her at crossroads with wanting to flout or follow. She runs to God, all 33 crores of them while eating the pickle from the jar on her period despite her mother’s warning. Take a look into what goes on in a teenage girl’s mind.
It’s a complicated one!
With the raging pandemic also came the desperation to become more productive, more positive, more fit. A lot of us got caught in this mad hatter of achieving the ideal weight, the ideal self, the ideal us.
But you know what?
It’s okay if you haven’t made your body look like how you planned once all the shebang got over. No more body shaming. No more crazy diet routines and life-draining workouts. Just do your best.
Today’s episode deals with a very similar issue yet a polar opposite of it.
In simple words skinny shaming aka scrawny shaming aka body shaming.
Narration By- Palak Khanna
Do you remember your first crush? Your first love? The first time you realized you were in trouble. An image probably from a few years ago comes to your mind. Maybe their face. Maybe their smile. The memories are either tinged with a bit of regret or it just seems like love of that time was a little more sweeter than it is now. The inevitable feeling of coming undone and knowing that destruction is lurking right around the corner. Destruction that would come from giving another piece of yourself and receiving none. Okay maybe a lesson. So, get ready with some hot beverage and an open heart for our story teller today has decided to let us in on tale of a first heartbreak. Narration by - Chanpreet Singh
Life is uncertain-uncertainity is life? One day with a skip in my step I was walking down the roadside and saw bushes adorned with wild flowers. The next day I was walking down the same sidewalk and the bushes looked messy with all the unevenness and a little wild-to be honest. Is it all in the way you see the world outside or is it all because of the way you see the world outside. Our storyteller today decided to share her experience with perspectives and sentient. Life is never easy, but doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. Right? Narration by : Chehak Dhingra
Once, if it were possible, just once -Could we turn back the clock to the lanes of childhood innocence? When the internet wasn’t a thing and we would spend entire scorching summer afternoons playing outside with no care in the world? When pinky swears were real and we could promise nothing with finger crosses.
Our storyteller for today recounts such similar nuances of childhood. Recounting those memories which could not have been captured in photographs but in certain toys, pencils and hearts.
Narration By: Mohit Bhankhar
All of us have stood at those thresholds where we had to take one final look at the last one and begin a new beginning. With new beginnings also comes the fear of losing the ever so sweet nostalgia from past. While it makes us vulnerable it is also this fear that makes us realize that our past has been so worthwhile. This episode talks about our storyteller's encounter with this fear of losing and how he overcomes it, at the end understanding its inevitable and presents itself in complete beauty and madness. Narrated by - Parth Gupta
On some days it is hard to not be hard on yourself. We all try to be better and some of us even set up those impossible standards of perfection. The continuous chase of this perfection creates a void within us and we fail to realize that more often than not we need to fill this void from the inside. This episode talks about our storyteller’s journey from self-doubt to self- love. Things might not go as planned all the time but its okay because when “Nothing is sure, everything is possible.” Anything more important than reaching destination is to keep going. Narrated by – Yukta Aggarwal
At times our days look like – Plan Plan Plan. Avoid confusion and sort things ASAP
We ask - Is confusion really as bad as everyone claims it to be?
We don’t think it is. We believe ambivalence sometimes helps us reach the life-changing ideas that we might not have otherwise. In this episode we will be talking about how it is okay to not have everything planned or even if you do – it’s okay to get off track and walk through other streets instead.
Because a little uncertainty never killed no-one, did it?
Narration By : Payas Dhingra