Giri at 1130am on 24th April 2011
Welcome to yet another post of Sujavna. Hope you are all finding my posts interesting to read, though I do get a feeling that they may not be exciting enough for most of you to comment and react. The comments boxes have remained empty all of April!
The week that went by: Corruption remained a media-darling for most of the week in India. And Catherine Zeta Jones’ bipolar disorder also occupied a lot of the print-media space towards the end of the week, with today’s paper focusing on the growing menace of depression amongst Indian urban citizens.
Padma (my wife) and I chatted on this issue this morning and we think that while there are a growing number of reasons for this, the empathy and support that immediate family-members can give, identifying and attempting some creative pursuits and putting in efforts to widen the circle of friends and acquaintances can all, probably, help people manage depressions. Easier said than done, you may think! How does one go about with any of these? Are there support-groups in Indian cities that can help people through their depressions? Perhaps each city should have a “Hug-a-friend” network of centres where depressed individuals could go any time of the day and find volunteers who are ready to give them a hug and say a positively-reinforcing message that ignites a spark in the persons to think positively about the issues that they confront. The network of centres could be sponsored by comfort-food companies as part of their own CSR initiatives! (not sure if this is a good idea, though).
Hope the long Easter weekend is rejuvenating you all. I look forward to reading your comments and views – not only on those topics that I have written about, but on anything else where you think you have some great suggestions to offer - so please use the comments box. Until next Sunday......
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