Mental Healthcare

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

File photo : This is the quiet, unseen work of 14461, Tele-MANAS’s toll-free, round-the-clock helpline. It's more than a voice on the other end, it’s a tether for those drifting through emotional fog, a lifeline for those who feel like they’re sinking.

Lifeline: Tele-Manas Is Leading A Quiet Revolution In How We Understand Mental Health Disorders

BY Jinit Parmar

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

Illustration: Saahil : Is there no freedom and justice for the prisoners?

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BY Sudhir Dhawale

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Outlook archives : The Banyan founders with their team in 1996

The Banyan And Outlook: 29 Years Of Championing Mental Health In India

BY Outlook News Desk

| 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

BY Md Asghar Khan

Tribhuban Tiwari : Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry & Allied Sciences

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

BY Nachiket Mor

Artwork by Vikas Thakur

There Is a Suicide Crisis Amongst India's Youth And Elderly

BY Soumitra Pathare

| Photo: Manpreet Romana : Shahnaz lives at The Banyan facility in Ratnagiri

Shahnaz Faced Homelessness And Mental Illness: Now She's Fighting For Her Children's Future

BY Chinki Sinha

| Photo: Manpreet Romana : Sonal was born in Maharashtra and has been living in the Home Again project of The Banyan, which provides housing to people with mental health issues.

Sonal Finds Solace And Hope In Mental Health Recovery

BY Chinki Sinha

| Photo: Manpreet Romana : Kamalini sometimes says she doesn’t want to go on living. But something stops her.

How Two Women Lost Their Identities To Mental Illness, And Fought To Recover

BY Chinki Sinha

Photo: Manpreet Romana : Shared Responsibilities: Food being cooked at The Banyan’s Facility in Chennai

Girls Finding Second Chances: Life Beyond Mental Illness and Homelessness

BY Chinki Sinha

| Photo: Manpreet Romana : Premavathi, the ‘cycle lady' of Chennai.

How 'Cycle Lady' Rode From Survival To Hope In Chennai

BY Chinki Sinha

Credit: Manpreet Romana | : Sunil lives in The Banyan’s Chennai facility.

Sunil's Journey Through OCD, Depression, Grief And Homelessness

BY Chinki Sinha

| Photo: Manpreet Romana : Saraswathi Premkumar came to The Banyan in 2015.

'My 74-Year-Old Father Is My Everything': Saraswathi’s Journey Through Pain, Poetry and Healing

BY Chinki Sinha

Romana Manpreet : Srividya struggled and coped all her life with mental illness.

Abuse, Loss And Long Road To Recovery: A Woman Recalls Her Life

| Photo: Suresh K. Pandey : Patients outside the mann kaksha at the Lucknow District Hospital.

In Uttar Pradesh, Dawa And Dua Go Hand In Hand

BY Swati Subhedar

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Why India Is Shutting Down Mental Health Hospitals Instead Of Reforming Psychiatric Care

| Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari : What are the Goals of Mental Healthcare?: A few patients at the Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences

Rethinking Mental Health Policy: You Can't Heal People Without Healing The World

BY Pragya Singh

Courtesy: Mohammad Ibrahim Family Album : The Ajmer Days: A young Ibrahim with his nani

My Mother’s Keeper: My Life As Pagli’s Son

BY Mohammad Ibrahim

Artwork by Mithu Sen

The Harsh Beauty Of Pain

BY Chinki Sinha

Artwork by Mithu sen

In Kali’s Memory: A Personal Story Of Mental Health, Healing, And The Complexity Of Care

BY Vandana Gopikumar

Tribhuvan Tiwari : Under Treatment: Patients at the Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences

Asylum: How Treatment Of Mental Health Disorders Evolved In India

BY Sanjeev Jain

Subash Sagar : In a land where stigma still surrounds mental illness, Erwadi provides a unique blend of community, faith and hope.

Erwadi’s Unchained Melody Of Dawa And Dua 

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