Mental health expert and professor Dr Nishtha Lamba spoke about emotional pain, inherited fear, and the quiet ways trauma shapes everyday life in India at the launch of the book Trauma Nation: Fighting India’s Silent Epidemic.
For decades, Indian researchers working in the field of mental health have had to depend on studies primarily on the Caucasian populations due to a lack of in-depth analysis at home.
At a discussion organised by Asia Society India Centre in Mumbai’s NCPA, mental health practitioners and entrepreneurs spoke about how encounters with illness within their own families pushed them to build institutions.
States have consistently underspent funds under District Mental Health Programme, which involves OPD, community outreach, awareness & training of healthcare workers in districts.
Vulnerability has often been compounded by poverty, geography, gender, disability, and limited access to care. Mental health challenges rarely exist in isolation.
Supreme Court bench issues guidelines to tighten higher education institutions' response to student suicides, invoking its power to do absolute justice.
UGC moves to standardise mental health support in colleges after Supreme Court push, calls for 24x7 helplines, peer support programmes, and crisis protocols.
Only one autopsy, shifting statements, and delayed forensics complicate an investigation now unfolding alongside rumours, stigma, and deeply gendered assumptions about women’s violence.
The current ‘cash and carry’ environment in Cannes is encouraging people who have nothing to contribute to cinema to show up in clownish “couture” to parade their insecurity.
With Washington issuing a third 30-day waiver for Russian crude cargoes at sea, India signals continuity in import strategy while ramping up purchases from Venezuela and other suppliers.
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.
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