“I believe India's mental health reform cannot rely on awareness alone, it must be structurally reimagined.
From a young age, I was drawn to people’s interior worlds, not just their stories, but the patterns beneath them. I listened. I asked questions. I sat with discomfort. And in doing so, I found that helping someone feel seen was its own kind of intervention. I didn’t have a formal vocabulary for it then, but I was already studying systems of emotion, of relationship, of care. Later, that instinct turned into method.
-What does care look like when it is culturally coherent, locally held, and structurally protected?
-What fails when systems are scaled without context?
-What breaks when we don’t have the language to name what we’re carrying?
These are not rhetorical questions. They are the coordinates of the work I now do. Over the last four years, I have led campaigns, developed context-specific interventions, and documented patterns that trace how people fall through the cracks of a mental healthcare system. I’ve assisted in facilitating and participated in over 70+ workshops, worked directly with 1000+ students and 350+ adults, across age, region, and access levels. I am now creating long-term solutions that center equity, access, and evidence. While i have actively working on creating handbooks, mental health toolkits, and reform proposals for institutions and policy makers.
Today, I’m the founder of Reform for India’s Mental Health Advocacy (RIHA) , one of the country’s most intentional and systems-rooted mental health reform initiatives. Established in response to structural gaps within India’s mental health system, RIHA is emerging as an integrated future-ready mental health ecosystem. Our work is strategically designed to complement and strengthen existing public health efforts, while introducing adaptive, evidence-informed models for delivery, education, and policy advancement. At its core, RIHA envisions a mental health ecosystem that is evidence-driven, structurally integrated, and accessible, anchored in principles of dignity, equity, and long-term sustainability for communities across India.
70+ Workshops
Delivered
1500+ individuals
impacted
