Topic: Mental health
Pulled out of classrooms, pushed into bureaucracy: How SIR is breaking India’s teachers and anganwadi workers
India’s Special Intensive Revision has turned teachers and Anganwadi workers into administrative labour, leaving classrooms empty, care centres strained, and frontline workers physically and mentally pushed to the brink.
World Mental Health Day 2025 highlights theme “Mental health in humanitarian emergencies”
As October 10 marks World Mental Health Day 2025, the World Health Organization’s campaign focuses on the theme “Mental health in humanitarian emergencies,” highlighting the urgent need to address the mental health and psychosocial well-being of people affected by crises, and reminding us that there is no health without mental health.
IIT Kharagpur’s ‘campus mothers’ programme: A band-aid to a structural crisis
Our responses to trauma cannot have patriarchal logics embedded in them. Unless we take the questions seriously and act through policy and repair, initiatives like “campus mothers” remain symbolic gestures and a tragic deflection that stands to repeat the cycle of trauma and exclusion.
Kerala woman, who killed infant daughter due to postpartum depression, dies
Divya Johny, a woman from Kerala who brought national attention to mental health and postpartum struggles after tragically taking the life of her infant daughter in 2021, passed away on April 14.
Genocide in Palestine and psychology’s socio-political responsibility
We live in a world that increasingly prioritizes mental well-being in every aspect of life. From schools to workplaces, mental health services are becoming...
Palestinians appear “shell shocked”, “wide-eyed” following torture in Israeli prisons
Palestinians detained by Israeli forces face severe post-trauma conditions. In a video that went viral online, a Palestinian man released from Israeli prison was seen to be in an extreme level of shock and fear.
