Mental Health
Interview – Raj Mariwala
Self-care is influenced by the environment we inhabit, the way we relate to others, the way we negotiate with other living beings or structures. Self-care is also interlinked with other types of care – whether that is in community resources, psychosocial support, engagement with medical and health care institutions, and of course in collective agency and solidarity.
By Shikha Aleya
July 5, 2021
Interview – Raj Mariwala
Self-care is influenced by the environment we inhabit, the way we relate to others, the way we negotiate with other living beings or structures. Self-care is also interlinked with other types of care – whether that is in community resources, psychosocial support, engagement with medical and health care institutions, and of course in collective agency and solidarity.
By Shikha Aleya
January 3, 2023
Interview – Deepa Pawar
Deepa Pawar is the Managing Trustee & Founder Director of Anubhuti Trust, and is well-known for her work with NT-DNT…
By Shikha Aleya
September 1, 2022
Interview – Sadhana Vohra
Sadhana Vohra is a psychotherapist in private practice in New Delhi, India. She divides her time between long hours at…
By Radhika Chandiramani
January 11, 2024
Interview – Reetika Revathy Subramanian
… climate change is not just environmental. It is social, political, economic, emotional. And it demands that we listen carefully to who is affected, how, and what they are already doing to survive.
By Shikha Aleya
August 19, 2025
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
Last week, I was at The Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia organised…
By Vizla Kumaresan
In dealing with other people’s trauma, India’s mental health workforce is battling burnout
India has a severe shortage of mental health professionals and the experiences of counsellors like Kapoor raise the question of whether there is a wave of therapist burnout in the country. Unfortunately, there has been no research to indicate the extent of the problem in India.
By Curated Content
In Appreciation of Singlehood
Growing up, for me, has been about accepting that the loneliness and sadness woven into the fabric of my being do not go away with entering conventional arrangements like monogamous relationships or marriage.
By Siddhi Pandey
February 1, 2021
How I live ‒ and try to die ‒ with schizophrenia
The following is an excerpt from Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist by Reshma Valliappan. This was first excerpted…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
How Grindr, The Dating App Is Destroying My Mental Health
By Kanav Narayan Sahgal December 4, 2019 Posted by Kanav Sahgal Growing up, I always knew I was homosexual. My childhood…
By Curated Content
How Being A Queer Feminist Shaped My Approach To Mental Health
As a queer-feminist mental health practitioner, my way to understand realities is to examine the power relations that exist in our social locations, identities and structures.
By Curated Content
From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone
We don’t have an original I-Column this month. Instead we feature the voices of two women, Deepika Padukone and Reshma…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
Forced into illness!
For long, a major section of our population considered people belonging to sexual ‘minorities’ as being mentally ill. They believed…
By Almas Shamim
April 1, 2015
Finding Hope At The Other End Of The Line: Stories from AASRA’s Helpline For Suicide Prevention
I run an NGO called AASRA, a 24×7 crisis intervention center for the depressed and suicidal. Day in and day…
By Johnson Thomas
Equality of Sex In a Relationship
“At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to…
By Sonal Sood
April 1, 2015