The world that was already healing from natural calamities, mass casualties, and several other catastrophic events slammed upon it earlier, was recently hit by an unprecedented storm. The coronavirus is a menace in true sense, that has taken a heavy toll on millions of human lives.
The pandemic has kept us all under a lockdown leaving us confined within our homes, ironically with plenty of things to do. This period of homebound allowed me to turn the searchlight inwards and grow in so many ways. Among so many things I laid my hands on in order to manage well this predicament, I also created a YouTube channel of my own.
I started the ‘The PGlogs’ with the purpose of bringing forth the issues that have been sidelined for years now and conversing with personalities who against all odds established themselves and continue to inspire the world.
First, I interviewed High Priestess Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, who is a transgender rights activist and the first ever transgender to have represented Asia Pacific at the United Nations in 2008. She was also one of the petitioners in the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of India announcing the abrogation of Section 377. She talked about the struggles she had to go through all her life as transgender, and how she rose above all of them and went on to conquer the world. She inspires all of us to respect our identities and love ourselves.
Then, I did a Skype conversation with renowned Bollywood Actress, Former Miss India and Fourth runner-up at the Miss Universe, 2001 and the current United Nations “Free & Equal” Campaign Ambassador, Celina Jaitly. She talked about several impediments she encountered and how she moved past them, also defeating depression and making an entry back again into the World of Cinema.
Both of them have galvanised many into raising their voices for worthy causes and inspire us to do so for as long as we can. They are an epitome of the fact ‘Women can be and do anything!!’
All along these interviews that I have conducted, I have applied the pre and post interview techniques focusing on the questioning approach as well as the analysis of information obtained, explained by our Head of the Department, Dr. Vartika Nanda Ma’am as a part of the paper ‘Reporting and Editing for Print’ offered to us, who has been guiding us both theoretically and practically by giving us different kinds of assignments. I thank her for her constant guidance and feedbacks.
With this platform, I hope to direct myself to the ocean of knowledge and continue to bring forward #ConversationsThatInspire.
Submitted By: Palomi Gupta
B.A. (Hons.) Journalism
Batch of 2022
Lady Shri Ram College For Women
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