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Opening up a dialogue on autism
The questions and concerns of parents and caregivers of children with autism or associated spectrum disorders are being collated by researchers Born to educated parents in Mississippi, five-year-old Donald Triplett was described by his psychiatrist and physician Leo Kanner in this way: “Even at an early time he was happiest when left alone, almost never […]
Internship exposes students to mental health issues
About 4,000 Class 11 and 12 students of 250 schools completed a 6-day summer internship with Fortis School Mental Health Programme in early June. About 140 schools out of these were from Delhi-NCR, and the others from metropolitan cities. This innovative programme was initiated by famous psychiatrist Dr Samir Parikh, who heads Fortis Healthcare’s Department […]
Dark secrets of the forest
An anthropologist goes on a trek with a Naxal platoon travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand and returns with an account that portrays rampant casteism among Left-wing extremists in India In Jharkhand, a London-based professor of anthropology discovered NGO workers in Land Rovers, development funds siphoned off by local elites, votes bought during elections, corporate honchos […]
‘Don’t typecast actors’
After his role in Kesari, Ashwath Bhatt will be seen in Deepa Mehta’s Netflix series Leila based on a novel by Prayaag Akbar NSD Alumnus Ashwath Bhatt is known for his realistic performances in films like Haider, Raazi, and Kesari. Originally hailing from Kashmir, his family had to leave the valley in the early 1990s […]
It sinks, like the Titanic
This Eid, only Salman Khan fans will enjoy Bharat, as the director fails to put all the exciting elements of the story together in a believable plot The much-awaited Eid release Bharat is an adaptation of the famous 2014 Korean movie Ode to my Father. The movie portrays different choices the protagonist makes throughout his […]
How I got the 2019 election all wrong
Confessions of an economist who thought he can’t get it wrong It was close to midnight, sometime during the first week of May. I and a childhood friend were sitting in the AC upper deck of a restaurant near the Metro cinema in South Mumbai and having mutton seekh kebabs. Or rather, I was having […]
As flights are grounded, Jet staff faces turbulence
From pilots to engineers to cleaners, the sudden cessation of salaries has left jet airways staff in dire financial straits. These are their stories Anil Kumar Kashyap could have never imagined that it would be his last day as a senior engineer with Jet Airways as Flight No. S2 3502 took off from Delhi for […]
‘Seek help without shame’
I was in the second year of college when I realised I was mentally unwell. I had gone through a breakup a few months back after being in a relationship for more than two years. The heartbreak caused by our separation shattered me. This was aggravated by the fact that I was already going through […]