Festival Programme
Day 1 - October 26
Worksh Workshop 3 /
Workshop 1 Workshop 2
Day 1 Audi 1 Audi 2 Audi 3 op Seating
(outdoor) (indoor)
Timings Lounge
10:00 -
Public Stalls & Engagement
20:00
10:00 -
Inauguration
11:00
Prevention is better
than Cure
Understanding ADHD Nurtured
Through
Speakers: Nachiket
Speakers: Eesha Nature
Mor (Independent Founder Burnout
Sharma (NIMHANS) &
11:15 - scientist) & Dr Vidita 11:15 -
TBD [Nature
12:15 Vaidya (TIFR) 12:45 [Project Cocoon &
Conservation
Kohmorehbee]
Moderator: Menaka Foundation +
Moderator: Jahnavi
Raman (Author & Dakshin
Phalkey, Founding
Podcast Producer) Foundation]
Director (Science
Gallery Bengaluru)
Spotlighting Women’s
Mental Health
Demystifying
Speakers: Dr Prabha
Addictions Theatre and Public-Patient
Chandra (NIMHANS) &
Mental Health Involvement in
12:30 - Dr Divya Nallur A session by The Dementia 13:00 -
Speakers: Dr VL Research
13:30 (Psychiatrist) India Alliance 14:30
Narasimha (Centre for [Aagaaz
Addiction Medicine, Theatre Trust] [NIMHANS]
Moderator: Amrita
NIMHANS)
Tripati (author &
founder-editor of
Health Collective)
Tune into Yourself: Adversity and childhood:
Music and Mental poverty, pollution and family
13.45 - Health stress
14:30
Speakers: Dr Shantala Speakers: Dr Vivek Benegal
Hedge (NIMHANS) (NIMHANS)
Mental Health and the
Margins: Queerness
and Systemic Realities Healing Through Movement:
The
Physical & Mental Health
Sandwiched
Speakers: Ragamalika
Invisibility: Living with Fostering Mental Generation
Karthikeyan (a queer Speakers: Dr Hemant Bhargav Clownsellers
Mental Illness Health in the City
14.45 - journalist), Sathiya G (NIMHANS), Swetha Subbaiah 14:45 -
[Pooja Pande,
16:00 (a queer lawyer), (Sisters in Sweat), Dr Sanjeev 16:15 [Medical
Speakers: The Banyan [Vidhi Center for Ruchita Shah
Bhairavi Prakash, Jain (NIMHANS) Clowning]
(NGO) Legal Policy] & Swaati
Founder - Mithra Trust
Chattopadhya
Moderator: Nandan Kamath
y]
Moderator: Rahel (a (GoSports Foundation)
queer mental health
practitioner)
16:30 -
Keynote: Rohini Nilekani + Rahul Dravid + Nikhil Taneja
18:00
The Vibes Are Off - Manasu Mathu: About
What’s plaguing Gen Caregivers
Z?
Kathi Kathi Kaarana: A Speakers: Pallavi Chander
18:15 - film screening Speakers: Anshu (FAHI), Kavita Murthy (FAHI), 18:15 -
20:00 Tewari (Youth ki Mohini Singh (FAHI), Dr. Jayant 19:45
[Quicksand] Awaaz), Neeru Mahadevan (NIMHANS)
Mulhotra (Pravah),
Kevin Lee Moderator: Dr Maitri
(Weareyuvaa) Gopalkrishna (FAHI)
Festival Programme
Day 2 - October 27
Workshop 3
Workshop Workshop 1 Workshop 2
Day 2 Audi 1 Audi 2 Audi 3 / Seating
Timings (outdoor) (indoor)
Lounge
10:00 -
Public Stalls & Engagement
20:00
10:00 -
Inauguration
11:00
Campus Cares: Mental Health
Living with
and Higher Ed
Pain:Mental Health Poetry and Enzo Art
11:00 - and Chronic Illness 11:00 - Mental Health
Speakers: Dr Ajit Bhide
12:00 12:30 [SlamOutLoud + [Artist: Sarika
(Psychiatrist,
Speakers: Dr Preethi Anjuman] Gulati]
Psychotherapist), Arvinder
Jain
Singh, Ashoka University
Digital mental health: Clay Modelling
Hit or Miss? and Storyteling
12:15 - Mental Health & Bollywood 12:45 -
13:30 Speakers: TBC 14:15
Speakers: Dr Soumya [Artist: Rucha
Choudhary (NIMHANS) Dhayarkar]
Silver Lining : Healthy Ageing
Speakers: Dr Mathew
Verghese (St John’s Hospital), Teen Drama:
Dr Maitri Gopalkrishna (FAHI), Adolescents and
Ms Pallavi Chander (Visual Parenting
13:45 -
Artist, Co), Mr Jimmy Xavier
14:45
(Caregiver, Voice and Theatre Speakers: Dr Ajit Bhide
Artist) (Psychiatrist,
Psychotherapist)
Moderator: Jwala Narayanan
(Consultant
Neuropsychologist)
Frontline Workers
Speakers: Farhat Mantoo Outlive -
(Médecins Sans Frontières), Men's Mental Health Suicide
15:00 - 14:30 -
Kaz de Jong (Médecins Sans Prevention
16:00 16:00
Frontières) Speakers: TBC
[Sangath]
Moderator: Gautam John
(CEO, RNP)
16:15 -
Closing panel: Dr. Shyam Bhatt
17:15
17.15 -
Closing Reflections by Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson - Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
17:30
18:00 -
Theatre: Girish Karnad's Hayavadana
19:30
