03/10/2025
A week before World Mental Health Day, featuring a new book, Bandaged Moments. This is a collection of short stories of (and around) Mental Health by women writers across India. Edited by academics Nabanita Sengupta and Nishi Pulugurtha, this book features 26 stories translated into English from 17 languages.
It is a one-of-a-kind book, offering insight into many different Indias that perhaps don’t always get centre-stage. This is an important collection, even if some of the stories may seem jarring out of context. The stigma, domestic violence, the lack of awareness around mental illness and the potential for evidence-based treatment is often made all too tangibly real in this collection of stories.
The Health Collective is proud to present an excerpt from the book, with the permission of publishers Niyogi Books.
Read the link in bio for excerpt from the story The Crazy River by Chirashree Indrasingh, translated from Odia by Narendranath Patnaik
Niyogi Books
