If there is a central theme to this book, it is how misunderstood and isolating the individual's mental health experience can be in a society...
Review: Shreevatsa Nevatia’s ‘How to Travel Light’
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For years, I thought my mental illness was a personal failing
Having spent more than a decade just fighting against my mind to keep myself afloat, my diagnosis was, in one word, a relief. I realised that...
As a blind woman, I belong to a community of friendship, love and care
The best part of being in the community is you don’t have to explain why you are you. You don’t have to be apologetic about being lost on the...
What to expect when you’re expecting (and happen to live with mental health issues)
I never quite understood what my friends thought about my mental health issues until I got pregnant. While they knew that I was an activist...
Behind Aditi’s Corner is a young woman in control of her own narrative
It is not Down Syndrome that Aditi had to overcome, but the way our society frames, treats and fails to accommodate for people who live with...
Think that sex and disability don’t mix? Think again.
Do you need to be told to think about sex? Well, neither do we. So what if our hands and legs don’t move as yours do, or we can’t see, or we...
‘If you want the full story, you have to start with our love story’
After years of flight, a disabled trans activist and his partner find home in small-town Karnataka
Trying to be an ally to the Autistic community as a mental health professional
I have the responsibility to convey the knowledge that is given to me by the Autistic community and most importantly, credit the community with...
Why I call myself a schizophrenist
I have to remind even my loved ones sometimes that I had skills, talents, knowledge and a range of experiences before schizophrenia showed up...