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Information provided by a Tardeo police official and police investigation report : Man Dead, Woman Hospitalized After 'Excessive' Liquor Consumption at Mumbai Music Event

Man Dead, Woman Hospitalized After 'Excessive' Liquor Consumption at Mumbai Music Event

A 35-year-old man died while a woman was hospitalized after they allegedly consumed excessive alcohol during a music event in Mumbai in the early hours of Sunday, police said

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The Boy Who Was Never There: An Outlook Reader Recounts Childhood Memory of Mental Illness

Everyone believed the boy's tale. After all, the things he spoke about did happen in the world...

BY Deepika Singh

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Video Interview | ‘I’ll Find A Way’: Prashant Verma On Mental Illness Stigma, Trauma And Artistic Vulnerability

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Watch |Dipika's Journey: Learning Empathy Through Mental Health Work

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Watch | Gautam Navlakha On India's Prisons: Punishment Precedes Trial

Watch | Uma Devi's Path: From Patient To Café Worker at The Banyan

Watch | Uma Devi's Path: From Patient To Café Worker at The Banyan

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Watch | Mariyam Swamy Finds Family And Purpose At The Banyan

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Watch | Dr Lakshmi Narasimhan on Mental Health Care Beyond Treatment

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Watch | Porselvi's Journey: From Unexpected Crisis to Independence Through Work

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Watch | The Banyan's Dr Archana Padmakar: 14 Years Transforming Mental Health Care

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Watch | Bhagya Lakshmi and Jenifer: A Friendship Forged Through Shared Struggle

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Watch | Living with Psychosis: Pratibha's Journey Through Treatment Struggles

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Watch | Sudhir Dhawale Spoke With Outlook About Mental Health Crisis in Indian Prisons

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Watch | Ira Khan on Depression, Stigma, and the Power of Connection In Conversation With Chinki Sinha

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UP's Mental Health Crisis: Rural Poor Are Slipping Through The Cracks

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Premavathi Finds Hope After Homelessness at The Banyan

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Caste’s Mental Health Toll On Dom Workers At Varanasi Ghats

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Saraswathi Premkumar: From Mental Health Stigma to Hope at Banyan

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Shahnaz: A Mother's Fight Against Mental Health, Trauma And Memory Loss

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Srividya’s Mental Health Journey: Surviving Abuse, Finding Purpose in Healing

| Photo: Soumya Sankar Bose : One among the case studies in the diary is Srimoyee—a woman who died in a hotel room in Puri, India.

Is The Global Mental Health Crisis Also An Existential One?

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Sonal’s Journey: Mental Health, Hope And Home Again

Mohammad Ibrahim works as an assistant cinematographer in Indian films.

From Ajmer Streets to Film Sets: A Cinematographer's Journey

| Photo courtesy: Mohammad Ibrahim : My sketchbook with a little history

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Sunil talks about his life and struggles with mental illness.

Mental Health Battle: Engineer's Journey From Homelessness To Reinventing His Life

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'I Would Get Nervous And Suffocate': How Saira Grappled With Isolation, Anxiety And Grief

| Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook : Shalok Chaudhary lights funeral pyres for 30-100 bodies a day

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"Every Day I Pray for Love": Finding Freedom From Mental Illness Stigma | Chinki Sinha, Vandana Gopikumar

"Every Day I Pray for Love": Finding Freedom From Mental Illness Stigma | Chinki Sinha, Vandana Gopikumar

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Inside Ranchi’s Psychiatric Hospital: Daily Life Beyond the Wards

Amrit Bakshy, Schizophrenia Awareness Association President, on Understanding Mental Illness and His Daughter Richa

Amrit Bakshy, Schizophrenia Awareness Association President, on Understanding Mental Illness and His Daughter Richa

'Everyday I Pray For Love': Note From Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha

'Everyday I Pray For Love': Note From Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha

Why Is There An Elephant On Outlook's Independence Day Cover? | Freedom From Stigma

Why Is There An Elephant On Outlook's Independence Day Cover? | Freedom From Stigma

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Invisible Scar: Kashmir’s Battle with Mental Health and the Missing

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How To Bridge India’s Mental Health Gap: An Interview With NIMHANS's Director Pratima Murthy

How To Bridge India’s Mental Health Gap: An Interview With NIMHANS's Director Pratima Murthy

BY Avantika Mehta

Artist Unknown—by Mithu Sen : Artist Unknown—by Mithu Sen—is a tribute to all the artists who remain unknown from the margins of intellectuals, market, and ownership networks. Many artists are unable to thrive under the demanding pressures of the Contemporary Art world. Forever struggling to create an identity, in the process, they remain caught in the complicated web of the urban lifestyle countering the forces in power.

Why Awareness Of Mental Health Disorders Will Never Be Enough Without Improved Care Services

BY Anirudh Kala

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Taloja Jail: Lives Fading in Silence Behind Iron Walls

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: A mentally ill man and his wife

Dealing with Wandering Mentally Ill People Is A Mountain-sized Crisis In Himachal

BY Ashwini Sharma

Shutter stock : Nuance is essential. Not all mental health support needs to come from clinical psychologists or psychiatrists.

Can Online Therapy Substitute Human Psychologists And Help People Heal?

BY Sushmita Barik

Special arrangement : Rahiyanath, , a 45-year-old woman from Kottappuram, Malappuram, in Kerala.

Meet Rahiyanath: The Woman Who Changed How An Entire Village Sees Mental Illness

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

| Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari : Lighter Moments: Inmates playing a game of Ludo at the Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences in Kanke

Inside A Mental Health Facility Near Ranchi: Forgotten Women Cry For Home

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Mental Health In India: Why Policy Reform Must Focus On Empathy

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How Mental Health Disorders Are Used To Silence And Browbeat Women

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