We have produced a series of informative short videos in Indian languages: simple tips to care for your #Mentalhealth in these difficult times. YouTube link in tweet below. Pl feel free to RT & share!! Thanks to all especially Meera Damji #Niyoshi & Quicksand for the hard work!!

We Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune have made short videos on helping Children Elderly Caregivers Persons with disabilities Cope with the psychological effects of #COVID Simple practical tips In Indian languages HINDI videos here youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Available in #Gujarati #Hindi & #Marathi. With Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ Meera Damji Niyoshi Do share widely. See the full playlist in Hindi here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Here are 8 tips to deal with stress in the context of COVID-19 because #MentalHealth is important too. Adapted from our Atmiyata programme and WHO's guidelines. In Marathi, with prominent actor sonalikulkarni. Mariwala Health Initiative Quicksand #EachOneReachOne

Our Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune videos on mental health self-care in 6 Indian languages covered by MH InnovationNetwork in blog below! Meera Damji 👍 Niyoshi Voices from the field: Conversations with health care workers on innovations in remote support during #COVIDー19 mhinnovation.net/blog/2020/may/…

Part 2 coming soon, watch this space. Mariwala Health Initiative Arjun Kapoor Niyoshi Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ Meera Damji #PrideMonth #PRIDE2020

TW for content. In the 19th C different sexual behaviours were divided into ab/normal on a feeble rationale, giving rise to #ConversionTherapy that targeted homosexuals. Three centuries on where do we stand? Know more through our series on this topic. Video 2 of 2. #PRIDE2020

NEW STORY: Independence came in 1947. For a couple of decades after, the party continued for those in the business of hunting. This is the story of shikar and shikaris, men who called themselves ‘brown hunters’ in the new world, by Niyoshi. fiftytwo.in/story/brown-hu…

Satpura, because that was my first guided safari. I wanted to hold onto the forest somehow so I collected variously-textured branches from the walk to our lodge. But our return train got delayed and I forgot the most gorgeous piece of the lot in the waiting room at the station.

Difficult to pick one :) Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri The Years by Annie Ernaux (tr. by Alison L Strayer)

Has to be the complete collection of Calvin & Hobbes :)

Next session is on the importance of local context and #engagement when developing #AItools. Three interesting case studies of #implementationresearch in Zambia, India and Botswana courtesy of Alinani Simukanga, Niyoshi and Kagiso Ndlovu.