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Every year, India loses more than one lakh lives to suicide, accounting for nearly a third of the world’s female suicides and almost a fourth of male suicides. These realities pose questions the nation can no longer afford to ignore.
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As I think of freedom and mental health, I hope all forms of stifling are challenged, and unjust barriers are broken.
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Many people have asked me why I decided to curate an issue on mental health. I think the answer lies in the memory. An old, painful one, but I wanted to be free to confront it on the page and to write a letter to my dead grandfather, who once was a caregiver to his youngest son, who suffered with schizophrenia. My Uncle was a brilliant doctor and a gentle person. He wasn’t perfect, but he was family.
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Mental well-being is rooted in the complex relationship between society and the individual. Laws and policies alone cannot fix it
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The courts, including the Supreme Court of India, have stepped in on multiple occasions, flagging violations of the Mental Health Act.
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At The Banyan's Home Again facility in Chennai, dignity, friendship and hope replace the stigma of being mentally unwell.
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In quiet seaside town Ratnagiri, six women share a home built brick by brick from understanding. Here at The Banyan’s Home Again, healing is a promise, not a miracle.
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Shahnaz lost everything: her home, her memory, her place in the world. At The Banyan, Ratnagiri, she began the long journey back to herself, and to her children.
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Saraswathi Premkumar has been living at The Banyan’s Chennai facility for the past ten years. She has been through a lot but love for her father keeps her going.
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Premavathi, who lives at The Banyan’s Chennai facility, earned the charming nickname as she was often seen cycling around the city.
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Kamalini and Kajal now live at The Banyan’s Ratnagiri facility, where community, care and a cat named Sundari help them heal from their trauma.
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Since joining The Banyan's Home Again project a few months ago, Sameer has been uplifting spirits at the Ratnagiri facility with his melodious singing.
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After years of moving between facilities and shrines, Sonal finally found a home at Ratnagiri’s Home Again facility. She opens up about her deep longing for family, love and belonging.
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Sunil was depressed, his wife battled schizophrenia; they lived on the streets in Chennai, then lost their daughter. Now at The Banyan’s Chennai facility, he's finally doing better.
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Do you believe in miracles? Because I do.
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Srividya, who grew up in the Kolar Gold Fields, sheds a life of abuse, strives to overcome her pain every day.
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The suicide crisis among the young and older adult populations needs specific targeted interventions.
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From Varanasi’s funeral pyres to Delhi’s sewers, India’s caste system creates hazardous working conditions for the country’s most marginalised communities, leaving them with psychological and physical scars
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In Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, genuine efforts are being made under the District Mental Health Programme to help people with mental illnesses. However, a large section of disadvantaged society is still slipping through the cracks
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Which moments—those fleeting, profound fragments of our existence—will linger and haunt us in our final breaths?
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Bakhshy, 83, has been the primary caretaker for his 53-year-old schizophrenic daughter.
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