This World Mental Health Day 2020, do check out an important converstaion that centers around lived experience and the art — books and music — created from very personal journeys. Featuring the wonderful Shreevatsa Nevatia, author of ‘How to…
Mental Health Books: Reccos from Author and Editor Himanjali Sankar
By Himanjali Sankar Mathematics has always let me down and I find I listed 6 books when asked for five but decided to go along with it since couldn’t decide which one to eliminate. The books are ordered chronologically according…
Mental Health and Music: A Rap Song for our Times
While it’s definitely Mask ON for physical health and safety, this Covid-19 pandemic, there’s a new rap song doing the rounds, that asks us to remove our figurative masks, in the interest of honest conversations. We did a short e-interview…
Surviving Suicide Loss: A First-Person Account with Dr Nandini Murali
Dr. Nandini Murali is a survivor of Suicide Loss, and the Director of SPEAK, an initiative of the MS Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, set up to create safe supportive spaces for conversations on Suicide and promote Mental Health.…
Let’s Talk Mental Health: A Series of Conversations
We curated a 4-part series to Talk about Mental Health for Roli Pulse, featuring some wonderful speakers, looking to demystify Mental Health and explore various important themes. You can watch each of the four episodes here or bookmark, and keep…
Affirmation: I Am Loved
By Adwaita Das No matter what our gender, no matter what our race, no matter what our country, no matter what our inheritance: we deserve love. Love is the gravity that connects and supports us all! …
Learning to Grieve: Through the Tunnel, with Barthes’ Mourning Diary
By Arpita Das Joan Didion writes that grieving is an experience, but mourning is work, and she could not have said it better. Grieving is certainly something one goes through, one experiences, one gives in to, one has to submit…
Your Stories: What It’s Like to Deal With an Anxiety Disorder
What does it feel like to have Anxiety? Is it any easier to talk to friends and loved ones about Anxiety these days, or has the popular use of the words anxiety and depression made things a bit more complicated?…
Let’s Talk Mental Health: We Need to Do Better
Amrita Tripathi I asked a few experts why it’s important to do better when it comes to Mental Health conversations in India. Even as we aim to address the gap in resources, the challenges and the stigma, and laud the…