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A reflection on anti-romeo sqad

posted on March 27, 2017

The Anti-Romeo Squad in discussion on media nowadays brings to my mind memories of another time where I was involved in a program started by Delhi police on the safety of women in north-east …

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Gandhi’s Business Model – A piece that I wrote long back

posted on December 25, 2014

This is in regard to a question about ‘Business Models in Social Entrepreneurship’. Hope it helps our Father of the Nation, Mahatama Gandhi’s Business Model. The year is 1920 and Mahatma Gandhi is …

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The Bheel Mother Who Wanted Her Child to be Born in Bharat – An Ode to Freedom

June 29, 2024 By Rajat Mitra

“I wanted my child to be born in India,” she said caressing her child. “How old is she?” I asked, “and when did you come to Bharat?” “She is only a week old, and we came a month ago.” “You made this journey full of danger in this condition knowing all that?” one of us […]

Why Gratitude Can Be A Burden And What Happens To The People Who Bear It

June 15, 2024 By Rajat Mitra

There is a saying that you are never a prophet in your own country. A prophet by whom I mean a visionary leader who leads his people on a chosen path, to a chosen future which they can’t see in the present, which lies in the womb of the future and lives without persecution or […]

A Hope Never Seen Before in Our People

January 22, 2024 By Rajat Mitra

Last month in December I was visited by a psychologist, a friend of many years. An observer of human behavior, particularly mass behavior, he is also an erudite scholar on religion. After spending a week with us, he went on a trip across India. He loves the warmth of the Indian people, the smells, sights […]

A Psychologist Remembers The Stigma He Witnessed In His Career

October 10, 2023 By Rajat Mitra

“You have worked with the mentally ill and the marginalized for many years. Surely you have had many experiences where you personally witnessed stigma faced by them.” These words of my friend, a psychiatrist jolted me. I was in a conference, designed to commemorate the world mental health day. A journey I began almost thirty […]

Why is Chandrayan an Issue About Race

August 30, 2023 By Rajat Mitra

One of my friends in northern Europe, a white psychologist who was watching the news of the landing of the Chandrayan in a restaurant overheard a couple of people at the next table saying, “Oh! But they are so dark. There is not a single fair person amongst them,” as if the presence of a […]

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