media coverage

• Dhatchanamoorthy, S. & Kottai, S. R. (2026). Colonialism, indentureship and mental health – An invisibilised triad. The  Telegraph, January 7.

• Annika, S. & Kottai.S R. (2025). What your university doesn’t teach you.  The Hindu.

• Review of the article Dhatchanamoorthy, S. & Kottai, S. R. (2025). Archives, mental health systems, and the history of mental health in colonial South India: Critical questions." by Prof  Shardhanand Harinandan Singh, Hon Professor Girmitiyology, EIMT, Zürich, Switzerland 

• Meenakshy. S (2025). The mental cost of survival for women migrant workers in T.N. The Hindu, 1 September. 

• Kottai, S.R. (2025). A paradigm shift in mental health policy. Mad in South Asia. August 10, 2025.

• Kottai, S.R. (2025). A paradigm shift in mental health policy. The Hindu, 7 April.

•  Kottai, S.R. (2024). Mental Health is a moral and ethical issue. The Hindu, 10 October. 

• MISA News Team (2024). Assessing community mental health programs in India: Insights from task-shifting in Kerala. Mad in South Asia. 9 September 2024.

• Kottai, S.R. (2024).  Mental Health is Political. The Telegraph, 6 March 2024.

• Kottai, S.R. (2023). Why IIT engineering students need social science training? The Indian Express, 20 November 2023.

• Ashfaque, E. J. (2023). A killing jolted Kerala five years ago. Did it change anything? Scroll.in, 5 April 2023.

• Podcast on Research Radio, Economic and Political Weekly-Sociocultural factors and mental health in India, 10 October, 2022. Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4K6k1wvhXzBHyJ7f3hmZDc?si=46edaf19cce442df

• Cheng, C.P. (2022).The Mainstream Psychiatric System in India Continues to Pathologize LGBTQIA+ People. 7 September, 2022. 

• Lilly, S. (2022). Psychiatry and Psychology Fail in Response to Farmer Suicides in India. Mad in America. 21 January, 2022. 

• Levin , B. (2022).Suicide, Indian Farmers, Indigenous North Americans… and the Shame of Shrinks. Mad in America. 14 January, 2022. 

• Poyyail, S.  (2021). Why the Mental Health Discourse in India Needs to Focus on Social Realities. 6 January 2021, Re-set. 

• Cheng, C.P. (2020). How Mental Health Professionals Undermined LGBTQIA+ Rights in India. Mad in America. 27 February, 2020. 

News report in Bodoland Guardian and The Sentinel, Guwahati edition on August 31, 2014