Usually, when you find an eight-year-old under the bed, it’s a Barbie or a tea party. Not with Leela Sivasankar Prickitt, who along with her mother Lyndie Prickitt instead started a podcast. And mind you, not just any podcast — one that aims at informing the children about the national and international happenings in the most appealing manner.
So, while people were acing their culinary skills in the lockdown, this mother-daughter duo from Delhi started a weekly family-friendly news podcast — Newsy Jacuzzi — for curious kids and open minds. It was the invention of being stuck inside a hot Delhi apartment with an eight-yearold all summer and the mutual love for podcasts that led to its formation.
“Leela is a total podcast fanatic and was super keen to create her own. Plus, we usually travel abroad in the summer, but obviously couldn’t this year. So we thought that the podcast is a way of....
