Mental Health in Times of Stress and Strife* (*First published in Nukhta-e-Nazar, Safar, e-Newsletter of the Department of Education, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi.) Newspaper reports point towards a variety of serious mental health concerns in school going children. These range from violence and aggression, sexual abuse, and academic stress leading…
No Guns At My Son’s Funeral Paro Anand 2005 India Ink/Roli Books pp. 168 This mesmerizing book is a must read for everyone. Setting in conflict ridden Kashmir, this book addresses the chaos in the valley as well as that within the head of a young boy who is on the verge of being recruited…
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007 (first published 2006)Harper Perennialpp. 433Adichie writes about the forgotten civil war in Biafra and the making of ‘united’ Nigeria. The story revolves around the lives of twin sisters of upper middle class Igbo family. A life spent in realising and living the contrast between the haves of middle…
