indian mental health
They Decided To Debate Women’s Leadership Skills. Then It Got Worse.
A recent debate reveals misogyny, casteism and queer-trans-phobia in Indian science academia.
January 2nd 2021
On mental health in academia: From the editors’ desk
Our editorial letter on the “Labhopping for Mental Health” series that ran on our blog through October, 2019.
November 18th 2019
Living to tell the tale: I quit my PhD as a survival tactic
The heady excitement of being admitted into a premier research institution built this PhD student for the best few months of her life. But somewhere along the way, things went downhill. Less than two years later, she decided to quit her PhD to give herself a new lease on life.
October 22nd 2019
How one research institute is building a culture where #ItsOkayToTalk
When a student turned up at the office requesting to see a counsellor, communicator Siuli Mitra and her colleague were baffled. They didn’t know if they had one and if yes, who it was. That experience set the wheels of change rolling for mental health support at this research institute in Faridabad.
October 15th 2019
“I can’t be depressed, I am Dalit.”
Academia is obsessed with marketing mental health as a science, without bothering to locate it as something that could be produced by social realities. And in India, is there any other social reality that is bigger than the reality of caste?
October 10th 2019
Being a Lesbian Trans Woman of Science in India
“Post and during the transition, I have definitely faced much discrimination and bigotry in the academic world,” says A. Mani, a mathematician
October 3rd 2019
STEMming the tide of mental health crises
Two neuroscientists and a sociologist reflect on mental health experiences of people in science. What is it about the environment in STEM labs that might increase the risk for anxiety and depression?
October 2nd 2019
Madhumitha’s quest to understand why Indians attempt suicide
How would science go about answering why some of us find an urge to end our own lives? Madhumita Balaji, Clinical Psychologist has some answers.
May 10th 2018