By Asma G “Stop being such a nag,” my cousin says to his wife when she reminds him to go grocery shopping, while he’s using his laptop. I feel my hackles rise; an involuntary reaction I always have in response…
Tag: Health Collective Book Club
Young Voices: Shreya Ramachandran and The Worlds Within You
Following is an e-interview with debut novelist Shreya Ramachandran, author of The Worlds Within You. Do read a short excerpt of the book here. Tell us a bit about what led you to write about The Worlds Within You? It’s strange…
Can Understanding Impermanence Help us Cope with Life?
With Indians daily battling stigma and many misconceptions when it comes to Mental Health, Gayatri Jayaraman shares some of what she believes to be key to a mind-spirit-body practice, what meditation has to do with it, and why understanding and accepting impermanence and change may be critical to making peace with our day to day life.
Anitya: Understanding Impermanence and Change in a Post-Pandemic World
By Gayatri Jayaraman The practice of embracing change happens in the face of those who make a virtue of its opposite – constancy. It’s what will keep you standing when change hurtles down the lane at you and the skittles…
The Age of Anxiety and How to Cope: Panel of Experts
Are we living through an Age of Anxiety? And what are some coping techniques? We put that quesiton to a panel of mental health stakeholders and contributors of our new book, Age of Anxiety
Health Collective Talks: It’s All in your Head M and No Straight Thing was Ever Made
What is it like to write a personal memoir on living with a mental illness, and what kind of reactions have readers been sharing? We ask authors Manjiri Indurkar and Urvashi Bahugana.