Rajat Mitra
Rajat Mitra is a psychologist, an author and a speaker
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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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“I feel so ashamed of what has happened in Manipur. I feel devalued as a human being thinking over what the men did to the girls.” One of my students said to me. “In fact my father said we all should …
After covering the last museum in Red Fort meant for the revolutionaries of India, I sat down for a cup of tea when my attention was drawn to a young boy in his teens talking to his father. “Papa, …
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The White man wrote history with the help of his texts. The rest of the world, many of whom he enslaved and whose history he tried to erase, have tried to build it around sacred symbols, sometimes as …
