The arrest of Dr. Randall Sequeira has left many health professionals working with marginalised communities shaken, afraid and questioning their role. Drawing on liberation psychology, Freire and Ambedkar, community psychiatrist Dr. Nilesh Mohite argues that this distress is a response to structural injustice, not an individual weakness to be managed.
Dr Nilesh Mohite is an community psychiatrist, public health practitioner and author. Working in remote villages of North east india since last 12 years to take mental health to marginalized communities.
Email: nmohite9@gmail.com
