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.
An exploration of how caste-based discrimination in educational and professional spaces erodes mental health, turning belonging into a lifelong battle. It argues that true wellness demands confronting caste as a systemic cause of psychological harm.
A rehabilitation expert’s world turns inward when his own son shows signs of developmental delay—unveiling a journey from denial to deep empathy, and transforming both his parenting and his profession. A personal essay on navigating disability, not just as a specialist, but as a father learning to listen, unlearn, and begin again
In India, mental healthcare is highly inaccessible to almost 70% of the population economically. That, combined with the focus of modern psychiatry on Western culture and pills leaves Indian people significantly underserved as their unique cultural contexts and existing systems of oppression go unaddressed. Here is how we can reimagine a model of mental health accessible to all.
