The year began with the news of the murder-suicide of a family in Chennai, when, on January 2, the bodies of a 36-year-old bank employee, who had killed his wife and two children and then hanged himself, were recovered. Police reports say mounting online gambling debts are the trigger.
Hope for those with dementia lies down a dusty mud road, a little past St Anthony's Shrine in Palavakkam. Hope in the form of fun and games, music and yoga, thanks to Dignity Foundation, which has just launched the city's first professionally managed dementia day care center inside the compound of vishranthi old age home.
With one in four voters living with a mental health issue, it’s a huge part of the electorate, says Vandana Gopikumar of Banyan, a Chennai-based NGO. "And, yet it’s unfortunate those with mental illness are not considered an important part of the electorate.
