Copycat suicide is a term given to an imitative suicidal behaviour that occurs after exposure to another suicide. This often happens after exposure to media reports of a celebrity’s suicide,...

India is one of those countries that are highly prone to natural calamities, including, floods, drought, earthquakes, cyclones and landslides. In the past many years, cyclones have affected the coastal...

Trigger warning: rape, suicide, abuse, queerphobia. India is believed to be the ‘land of diversity’. Yet, we’re far from being the land of ‘acceptance’. Discrimination against a person due to...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. This condition may last months or years, with triggers...

With the highest suicide rate in the South East Asian region, India has a suicide rate of 16.5 suicides per 100,000 people as per the WHOs report (2016). Mental health...

Being open to exploring one’s own sexual identity is important, especially in younger years. However, in the same vein, it is also completely okay to wait for a while before...

Amid the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, various parts of the world are facing another severe crisis currently. Swarms of locusts — short-horned grasshoppers — have invaded vast swathes from African...

January 1, 2020 marked the beginning of a brand-new decade that a lot of us looked at with optimism and as a chance at a new kick-off in life. Now,...

COVID-19 has engulfed the world as we know it in chaos. Apart from the loss of life that the disease has brought, economies and livelihoods have been put in jeopardy...

While social distancing is important at the moment to manage the spread of the deadly Coronavirus, it seems to be having a devastating effect on people’s mental health. The isolation...