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Rethinking Advocacy through Disability-themed Children’s ‘Fiction’

Vol. 58, Issue No. 14, 08 Apr, 2023
Shubha Ranganathan, S V Chetan

The Space We’re In and In the Meadow of Fantasies open up space for talking about disability in ways that are delightfully simple and evocative.

A Mental Health Epidemic?

Vol. 57, Issue No. 3, 15 Jan, 2022
Sudarshan R Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan

Questions are raised about an approach towards psychiatric epidemiology, which directly imports models in medicine to count disorders of the mind to produce staggering evidence to the effect that 11% of Indians suffer from mental disorders. An alternative psychiatric epidemiology is needed, which relies on the principles of slow research, is value-based, and which defines mental health as an ethical and political problem.

Locked in: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Spells for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Vol. 55, Issue No. 32-33, 08 Aug, 2020
The authors reflect on how COVID-19 has affected the issue of domestic violence against women in Kerala, and argue that it is imperative to include domestic violence-related services as part of the gamut of “essential services” to mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic and its responses.

Reimagining Schizophrenia

Vol. 53, Issue No. 4, 27 Jan, 2018
Sudarshan R Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan

Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist by Reshma Valliappan, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2014; pp xiii+260, ₹325.

The Rationalist Movement against Quack Healing

Vol. 49, Issue No. 1, 04 Jan, 2014
Shubha Ranganathan

Following the murder of the anti-superstition crusader Narendra Dabholkar in Maharashtra there has been a lot of outrage against quacks and "babas". However, in a diverse and pluralist country, it is difficult to determine which healing practices constitute "superstition" and which are genuine. Further, the rationalist movement fails to distinguish adequately between faith and blind faith often seeing the opposition between science and religion in either/or terms. In this rationalist world view, there is little space for the mystical, spiritual, or even the cultural and symbolic.

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