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Project SIREN award 2025: calling for responsible reporting on suicides   

Project SIREN award 2025: calling for responsible reporting on suicides   

August 12, 2025

Project SIREN

Afreen Zehra

In 2022, India recorded its highest number of suicides since 1966 (1,70,924, representing a 4.2% increase from..

Unpacking India’s District Mental Health Programme  

July 18, 2025

Murchana Hazarika

Building Mental Health Capacity in India

July 04, 2025

Vinitha Prabhu and Amiti Varma

Living with the grief of losing a loved one, and a simple support model in rural India that is addressing suicide

July 02, 2025

Sapna Negi, Sonali Kumar and Prajakta Dhapte

Voices from South Asia: The impact of climate change on youth mental health

June 24, 2025

Shubhda Sharma and Mehak Malhotra

Know Your Mental Health Rights in India: Understanding the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017

June 13, 2025

Prajakta Dhapte

Mental health funding in India: when economic surveys and budget realities diverge

May 29, 2025

Sayali Mahashur and Ramya Pillutla

Navigating data privacy in India and its emerging intersection with mental health

May 28, 2025

Murchana Hazarika and Prajakta Dhapte

Why Women's Mental Health Needs Special Attention

April 09, 2025

Ramya Pillutla

Family, Job, Discrimination: What's Driving Indian Youth To Suicide?

April 08, 2025

Can the media play a leading role in preventing suicides?

May 14, 2024

Meera Damji & Soumitra Pathare

Deinstitutionalizing mental health care in the WHO South-East Asian Region

May 13, 2024

Being initiative’s recent report on top youth mental health needs

April 29, 2024

Somya Agarwal, Swagatika Mohapatra & Amiti Varma