We, Lohitha S and Rupesh C are Grade 10 students from New English Secondary School, Mumbai.

We are readers, we both are passionate about a number of issues, including Gender issues, Climate change and a bunch of diverse topics that are affecting our community and our lives in some or the other possible way. With this passion and curiosity to know more we started thinking of solutions about such issues hence we stareted Holistic Approaches to hold discussions on the same.

The initiative- our brainchild, serves as a platform for enriching discourses on an array of subjects.

Holistic Approaches serves as a platform for people from diverse contexts to come together, and have detailed, fact driven, and open minded discussions on issues that require our attention and understanding.

In the upcoming months, we will be holding weekly virtual sessions. Through each of these sessions, we will be exploring a different theme and subject.

Given how limited the scope of our formal education is, we felt the need to bring together students, educators and people from different walks of life to talk about a multitude of issues that are otherwise overlooked.

We wanted people to critically analyse the information that they were gaining and discuss the impact of the smallest thing they do in our day-to-day life that plays a big role in the community.

It is our belief that every individual's perspective matters, and Holistic Approaches therefore provides a forum where we can unleash the power of knowledge, awareness and critical thinking.

• In depth analysis of an array of topics that need our immediate attention

• Providing a platform for people to share their perspectives, and learn from one another

• Overcoming the restrictive nature of most fireball education systems, by facilitating open, yet objective discussions