COVER STORY
As I think of freedom and mental health, I hope all forms of stifling are challenged, and unjust barriers are broken.
Outlook Magazine - 21 August 2025
Everyday I Pray For Love
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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.
Mental well-being is rooted in the complex relationship between society and the individual. Laws and policies alone cannot fix it
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
The paradox at the intersection of work and mental health is that our world today exemplifies working conditions that undermine people’s psychological wellbeing, while simultaneously excluding millions of people with psychosocial disabilities from occupational roles.
Although the how, where and when to treat mental illness are now better understood in India, the ‘why’ continues to be obscure.
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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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Do you believe in miracles? Because I do.
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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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The paradox at the intersection of work and mental health is that our world today exemplifies working conditions that undermine people’s psychological wellbeing, while simultaneously excluding millions of people with psychosocial disabilities from occupational roles.
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Although the how, where and when to treat mental illness are now better understood in India, the ‘why’ continues to be obscure.