Positive: Voices Through The Storms and The Calms of a Torrential Pandemic

About Positive: Voices Through The Storms and The Calms of a Torrential Pandemic

Listen to stories of people who surfed the rough seas of the pandemic. Hear them narrate their firefighting experience in hospitals, volunteer hubs and within their families. Producer: Anupama Chandrasekaran Visit us here (https://newsreel.asia/podcasts)

Publisher

Newsreel Asia

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2021

Latest episode

28 Sept 2021

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Sept 2021

   Surrogate Mothers and the Financial Distress of the Pandemic

   Pinky and Meena didn’t imagine that one could conceive a baby without sexual intimacy. Then the financial torment of the pandemic brought them to surrogacy. Dr Nayana Patel, who runs the hospital where Meena and Pinky enrolled as surrogates, describes the precarious hurdles her hospital faced during the pandemic.

2. 

   17 Aug 2021

   COVID-19: A Search for the Missing

   Menson Aruldas grew up without his mother. The news of deaths surrounding the pandemic has made him pedal harder to find her. He doesn’t want to regret missing an opportunity to reconnect with her.

3. 

   28 Jun 2021

   Young lifeguards Patrol the Corona Ocean

   A youth organisation transforms into a call centre to help Corona patients and their families scrambling for assistance. Anger simmers about government inadequacies.

4. 

   20 Jun 2021

   Next stop: India’s Villages

   An unexpected death rocks a far-flung tribal settlement, previously untouched by the pandemic. Regi George, a doctor running a hospital in this remote region, and his team chalk out a prescription plan for Sittilingi valley in South India.

5. 

   7 Jun 2021

   To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate

   Behavioural science researcher Anushka Ashok dissects roadblocks to vaccinating the world.

6. 

   1 Jun 2021

   A Son Soaks in Grief

   Sayantan Banerjee is only 23 years old. He learnt a life lesson as he soaked in the sorrows of others during his mother’s hospitalisation.

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