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Unravelling Van Gogh

Volume 13 Issues 3 March, 2023 ~ some people are artists, some themselves are art. Art is commonly regarded as one of the ‘blessings’ of civilization, where as mental illness is often viewed as one of humanity’s unkindest misfortunes. A mental illness is often viewed through the lens of it’s limitations which are imposed on […]

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Mental Health Education and Promotion for a healthy mind

Dr Latha K Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022  Mental Health Promotion (MHP) involves strengthening the policy environment and using strategic communication for network building, stakeholder engagement, enhanced mental health literacy and behaviour change. The lack of mental health literacy and stigma associated with mental illness in our society is reflected in the public’s attitude. […]

Delivering lecture at IIT Delhi.
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Prof. Bimla Buti: A Face of Indian Women Scientist

Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Professor Buti was born in 1933; her family migrated from Lahore to Delhi during the partition of India. She was an arts student in High School as Government School, where she got admission on migration to Delhi, did not have science as an option. Her father, a Gold Medalist […]

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Women and Modern World

An complication from women editor team of MINDS Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 It is a truth universally acknowledged, by the Indian ad industry, that the only thing that a working middle-class mother needs to fulfil the unrelenting demands from her family, colleagues, and bosses, is a fleet of slick kitchen appliances. The husband’s […]

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‘SHE’ AND ‘HER PSYCHE’

Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Mental health is any individual’s fundamental right and every attempt is to made to achieve it in one’s lifespan. Having said that, it is important to look after the various determinants which define its dimensions. Gender is one of such determinants which influence one’s mental health. Men and women […]

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Dr Thara Rangaswamy: A Face of Indian Women Psychiatrist

Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Dr Thara Rangaswamy is a psychiatrist by training and the co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of a not-for-profit NGO called SCARF (Schizophrenia Research Foundation) in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. She was the Director of SCARF for 23 years. After her PhD on the subject of disability, she lobbied […]