By Vedika Aum, an ongoing survivor of depression. The image is of a sketch by Vedika depicting bursting forth through the darkness
I live I laugh I create I think I learn
...and I question
I meet silence
I question again and am told to be…
Breaking bad news to patients can be daunting and difficult, especially for caregivers. Maya Ramachandran narrates her experience when she and her husband were caught in such a catch-22 situation.
My husband’s close relative was…
By Geetha Paniker, a survivor of triple negative cancer with double mastectomy. A believer of being positive against all odds who pens, all that the mind can reason with the heart. A teacher, turned home maker, she loves …
A poem on incarceration by Jhilmil Breckenridge
If you stare out of a barred window across
A bleak garden some September morning
If the neem tree in the garden reminds you of home
Vast, old, timeless
If you remember playing under a neem tree…
Carol D’Souza, a consulting psychologist, recounts her mother’s advancing dementia and how she and her family made peace with the agonizing decision to put her in a care home.
Putting my mother in a Home was one of the most difficult decisions…
- By Seema Lal, a school counsellor and life skills teacher and a child rights activist at TogetherWeCan
You came to me, running in glee, and said, "Ma'am I will not get into trouble today! I didn't forget to wear the football uniform! My…
Three spinal tumour surgeries could not stop Deepa Malik from being the first ever paraplegic Indian biker, swimmer, car rallyist, entrepreneur who doubles up as a very successful motivational speaker as well. Read this amazing woman's…
Says Shachi Marathe, 30, eight years after their unnerving encounter. Her experience.
Age 22, File Number BX9059- Breast Cancer Carcinoma Grade 3… this was my identity for a while.
It was during that time, lying on my hospital bed,…
Meet Mr. Merwan Zend, first patient member of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder's Society of India to run the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. His motto is "I may have Parkinson's but Parkinson's will not have me"
On a pleasant…
