Now Streaming: ‘Let’s Not Pretend’ Debuts on Dalimss News OTT with an Unfiltered Look at Motherhood

Dalimss News Education has launched Let’s Not Pretend, a new original OTT talk show that turns its attention to the parts of parenting people often edit out of everyday conversation. The first episode, Nobody Warned Me About This, is now streaming on the Dalimss News website.

Hosted by Fizaa Madhok, the programme is built around candid conversations with parents, doctors and educators rather than a familiar advice-show format. It does not present a perfect household as the goal, or offer a checklist that claims to solve the untidy realities of family life. Its premise is simpler: create room for people to say what raising children and caring for a family can actually feel like.

The opening episode brings together Ayesha Ohri Agarwal, Dr Shreya Mehrotra and Mallika Bawa for a 27-minute conversation about motherhood. Across the discussion, the three guests examine the exhaustion, guilt, anger and loneliness that can coexist with a mother’s love for her children. They also speak to a loss of personal identity that can occur when the roles of mother, partner, daughter and daughter-in-law begin to crowd out a woman’s sense of herself.

That subject is often described in private but softened in public. Let’s Not Pretend deliberately keeps the conversation away from performance. The participants are not asked to prove that they have mastered parenthood. Nor are they framed as people dispensing universal answers. The episode instead treats uncertainty, frustration and emotional fatigue as experiences worth naming in their own right.

The result is a conversation that may feel familiar to viewers who have found themselves insisting that everything is fine while sleep, time and patience are running short. It also makes space for a contradiction that is central to parenthood but not always easy to articulate: profound love for one’s children can exist alongside the need for solitude, recognition and a life beyond caregiving.

Although the first episode centres on three mothers, the wider series is designed to draw in several perspectives. Dalimss News Education says future conversations will include mothers, fathers, doctors and educators, bringing together people who experience parenting from different positions. The show was conceived in Varanasi and is part of the publication’s expanding education and public-conversation programming.

The education context matters. Conversations about children are often reduced to schools, examinations and academic outcomes, while the emotional conditions surrounding a family receive less attention. Yet a parent’s wellbeing affects the atmosphere in which children learn, communicate and develop. By speaking about the adults around the child, the show broadens the idea of an education conversation without turning personal experience into a lesson plan.

For Fizaa Madhok, the role of host is to keep that space open rather than steer the guests towards a predetermined conclusion. The programme’s tone is conversational and direct, with its stated emphasis on being unfiltered, unrehearsed and unapologetic. The set and four-person format give the first episode the intimacy of a living-room exchange while retaining the structure of a moderated discussion.

Nobody Warned Me About This is listed as Season 1, Episode 1 and is presented in English. It was released on 10 August 2026 and runs for 27 minutes and four seconds. Viewers can stream the full episode directly on Dalimss News OTT without leaving the publication’s website.

Watch Episode 1, Nobody Warned Me About This, here: https://dalimss.news/ott/episode-1-nobody-warned-me-about-this

With Let’s Not Pretend, Dalimss News Education is opening a series in which the most useful starting point is not expertise or perfection, but honesty. The first episode does not attempt to settle the questions it raises. It invites parents and families to recognise them, discuss them and, perhaps, feel less alone in having them.