Behind the Scenes/ Parde ke peeche

Saumya Malhotra
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A podcast that shows that mental health issues are not a personal failure. This is made as part of the Ideosync UNESCO Information Fellowship, 2020 Special Cohort on Intersectional Feminism and Human Rights.

Episodes

  1. 05/12/2021

    Season 2, Episode 4: Anas's Story part 2

    I take a deeper dive into topics discussed with Anas in the last episode.

  2. 05/12/2021

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Anas's Story

    Listen to Anas tell his story about how he experienced mental health care during his college years and what transpired after he left the institutional setting. We talk about community awareness, labels, and quality therapy for those without access!

  3. 04/23/2021

    Season 2, Episode 2; Shivangi's story part 2

    Continuing the conversation with Shivangi from last episode, we focus on some quick facts and contextual analyses that can help relate Shivangi's story in the larger socio-political context of India.

  4. 04/23/2021

    Season 2, Episode 1: Shivangi's story

    Shivangi shares her story and struggles with accessing quality mental health care. She highlights important pitfalls in the mental health care system in India, and discusses what we can do to make it better for those who are struggling.

  5. 03/31/2021

    Episode 2 - Swati's Story 2

    In a report on gender equality in the non-profit sector in india, published by Institute of Social Studies Trust, it is stated that despite india’s economic growth, patriarchal binaries continue to define the workplace. The total female labor force participation in India is on 29% (world bank 2010). Moreover, women tend to earn 25 percent less than men in the formal sector in India (2013) and the estimates for the informal sector can only be assumed worse. The non profit sector, which is often perceived as the “domain of women” in India shows UNDERREPRESENTATION of women when it came to managerial positions and above. In the majority of the organisations (50% of the surveyed) women constituted more than 50% of the workforce. However, the find it difficult to provide many of the facilities because of financial constraints. Let’s tune in and listen to her psychiatrist’s diagnosis and a short socio-cultural analysis.

  6. 03/31/2021

    Episode 6 - Kanchan's Story 2

    Violence against children includes all forms of violence against people under 18 years old. For infants and younger children, violence mainly involves child maltreatment (i.e. physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect) at the hands of parents and other authority figures. Boys and girls are at equal risk of physical and emotional abuse and neglect, and girls are at greater risk of sexual abuse. As children reach adolescence, peer violence and intimate partner violence, in addition to child maltreatment, become highly prevalent. Violence against children can be prevented. Preventing and responding to violence against children requires that efforts systematically address risk and protective factors at all four interrelated levels of risk (individual, relationship, community, society). This is the last episode of the first season of Behind the Scenes! Stay tuned for more!

  7. 03/31/2021

    Episode 5 - Kanchan's story

    We’re back again with another story about family and mental health. But this one focuses on childhood and the family we grow up with. What happens behind closed doors is sometimes important for the world to see so that we acknowledge that child abuse is not just a family’s “internal matter”. Let’s lend our compassion to Kanchan (name changed to protect identity). Stay tuned.

  8. 03/31/2021

    Episode 4 - Sneha's story 2

    The World Health Organization (2016) estimated that 35% of women worldwide have experienced some form of violence, with the vast majority of this violence against women being intimate partner violence in heterosexual relationships. The World Health Organization reports that one third of these women (30% of women worldwide) have experienced domestic violence. Culture plays an important role in DV cases in India. Gender roles, in particular, are patriarchal and rigid (Panchanadeswaran & Koverola, 2005). In heterosexual relationships. women tend towards “passive roles” whereas men tend to dominate and control relationships. Marriage is considered a “sacrosanct” union between two families rather than between individuals. In this context, women’s primary roles end up being marriage and motherhood. In this episode we discuss the trauma and violence that follows a heterosexual relationship and how that can have a detrimental impact on a woman.

  9. 03/31/2021

    Episode 3 - Sneha's story

    This episode focuses on another part of a woman’s life in a heterosexual relationship where she has to leave her current household and change her entire way of living due to the institution of marriage. This ritual is so normalised that many don’t sit to wonder what impact it can have on someone’s mental health, especially if the marriage is arranged, as is the case for Sneha (name changed for privacy reasons). Listen to Sneha’s story and stay tuned in for the next episode for a deeper dive into the socio-cultural context of marriage amongst heterosexual women.

  10. 03/31/2021

    Episode 1 - Swati's Story

    Swati (name changed for anonymity) chronicles her mental health journey which took a hard turn when her working environment became toxic and she felt cornered in her profession. Stay tuned for the next episode where we hear her diagnosis and a socio-cultural context around toxic work culture for women.

    Episode 1 - Swati's Story
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A podcast that shows that mental health issues are not a personal failure. This is made as part of the Ideosync UNESCO Information Fellowship, 2020 Special Cohort on Intersectional Feminism and Human Rights.

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