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Dr Ashish Deshpande: Leading India's Mental Health Awakening

India’s mental health landscape is awakening and aching. With almost one in seven Indians suffering psychological distress, the demand for inclusive, stigma-free care becomes louder with each passing day. And yet under lying this growing awareness is an even greater silence of shame, neglect, unaccessibility, and over-strained systems. Mental health, for most, remains behind closed doors and hushed tones. It is into this silence that Dr Ashish Deshpande steps not with noise, but with quiet conviction. With empathy in his heart and neuroscience in his mind, he has emerged as one of India’s most respected psychiatrists. A pioneer not only in clinical excellence but in shaping the emotional, social, and policy dimensions of psychiatry, he gives voice to the unspoken and dignity to the...