The Hive Podcasts

"You're in a crowded market. It's hot. And sudenly you really need to go." Jasleen and Abieth tackle the topic everyone needs but nobody talks about, and why the lack of public toilets is a bigger problem than you think

Most friendships start with small talk. The great ones start with honesty. Dravya and Deekshitha get into everything nobody tells you about building real relationships, the nerves, the wrong people, the right ones, and why a screen will never replace a hug.

In November 2024, Delhi's AQI hit 795, sixteen times the safe limit. Doctors told people to leave the city. Just because of the air. Om and Senthamizh break down what's really in the air between Dubai and Chennai

The classroom goes silent. Papers are passed around. Your results are face-down in front of you. You already feel it in your chest. Veer and Pradeep talk about what exams really do to you not the numbers but the weight.

One wants to be a doctor so she can treat people for free. The other is asking why the wait is so much longer for some people than others. Dishi and Aayisha talk healthcare, trust, and the gaps that cost lives.

"When soemthing goes wrong in a school, who is actually responsible?" Ann and Ilamthi pull apart the Indian education system and ask the question nobody wants to answer: what does "free education" really mean?

Yogalakshmi's mother was brilliant. She left school in 8th grade so others could keep going. Shriya and Yogalakshmi open this series with a question that shouldn't still need asking in 2026- why are so many girls stopped before they even reach the starting line?

Some girls don't drink water all day at school. Not because they forget but because the bathrooms aren't safe enough to use. Shriya and Yogalakshmi talk about the barriers nobody sees, the ones that don't make headlines but quietly push girls out of classrooms every single day.

The law says every citizen is equal. Studies say untouchability is still practiced in over 25% of rural Indian Households. Gokul and Gowtham take on the system people carry in their suitcases across oceans.

Maths assignment. English project. Piano class. Mom's reminder about tomorrow's test. Kimaya and Sarigha skip the "I'm fine" version and get into the real one where resting feels like falling behind

Yogalakshmi and her friend Raahil sold lemonade. Same sun, same hours, same work. He got 100 rupees. She got 40. The reason? He's a boy. Shriya and Yogalakshmi wrap up this series with the story that says everything and a message for everyone who'll be boss someday.

The average person picks up their phone 110 times a day. Most kids get their own phones at 9, but Pratiti and Fazil won't get one until they finish school. Same world, different rules and one big conversation about what screens are doing to all of us.

Pancakes in Dubai. Corn rice with sambhar in Chennai. Same age, same homework, completely different mornings. Shaivi and Mridhula share what student life actually looks like. The routines, the pressure, the small moments that make a day worth living.

Every city has a heartbeat. you can't find it on a map, you feel it. Gaurika and Madhumitha travel between Dubai and Chennai, listening for the music, the history, and the pulse that lives beneath the streets.

Same planet. Same streets. But not the same experience. Ayisha and Saadgee go somewhere most conversations avoid. The quiet, normalised discrimination that lives in classrooms, comments and silence.

A plastic bag takes up to 500 years to decompose. Anoushka and Sumaiya are asking why we keep throwing them anyway and why the solution might start long after the bin.

It writes your essays, answers your questions, and never judges you. But is AI making us smarter or slowly switching our brains off?? Sahana and Thiruvishnu take on the tool their generation can't stop using

Imagine waking up tomorrow and the internet doesn't work. Devansh and Abdul trace the world back to the people who built it, the inventors whose ideas changed not just technology, but what was possible for all of us.

Nishka and Wasim go somewhere most conversations won't, what illegal activity actually looks like in a teenager's world in Chennai and Dubai. Not from a textbook but rather from real life.

Have you ever adjusted yourself so much you forgot what the original version felt like? Arya and Akrithaa talk about the unspoken cost of belonging and why being genuine can feel riskier than just fitting in

Friends want you to play. Parents want you to study. Culture wants you to conform. Dhiya and Surya compare notes on what it feels like to live inside everyone else's expectations and how exhausting it gets.

The chapter was rushed. Some boards skipped it entirely. Aarav and Moganesh learned about pollution mostly outside of school and they're asking why, and what we plan to do about a planet that can't wait.

Putting the bottle down is just the first step. Changing your life is what keeps it down. Anjali and Kavisri look past the bottle at the people behind it, the families, the cycles and the long road back

It's underground. It's invisible. And it's making people sick. Daksha and Mithran drag the conversation about the drainage and sanitation out of the shadows and into the spotlight where it belongs.

They don't have a voice. So Advik and Jeevan decided to use theirs. From circus animals to ocean plastic to the chickens that never knew what was coming, this episode asks the questions animals can't