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The Guardian_‘A breakthrough, not a breakdown’: one woman’s quest to transform mental health care in India_2021

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The Guardian_‘A breakthrough, not a breakdown’: one woman’s quest to transform mental health care in India_2021

Ratnaboli Ray is a mental healt...and or psychosocial disability.

Ratnaboli Ray is a mental health activist who is the founder of Anjali, a rights based organisation based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which works for persons with mental health condition and or psychosocial disability.

Ratnaboli sharing light moment ... her Calcutta Pavlov Hospital..

Ratnaboli sharing light moment with the patient in Anjali, the NGO run by her Calcutta Pavlov Hospital..

Ratnaboli is sharing light mome...l.Activities run by Anjali NGO.

Ratnaboli is sharing light moments with the workers in the Dhobighar. Dhobighar is an automated commercial laundry providing employment to recovered men and women of Pavlov Hospital. This laundry washes the linen of two other Govt Hospital.Activities run by Anjali NGO.

Colour is getting prepared for ...minimum wages act of the state.

Colour is getting prepared for Hand block printing using wooden stamps dipped in colours to create scarves, stoles, napkins is a skills training process by Anjali, an NGO run by Ratnaboli, provided to the patients living in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital as a source of possible livelihood option towards independent living. Recovered patients engaged in block printing unit are remunerated under the minimum wages act of the state.

Aditi Basu, consultant, Block P...minimum wages act of the state.

Aditi Basu, consultant, Block Printing is supervising the Hand block printing process at Anjali, an NGO run by Ratnaboli, provided to the patients living in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital as a source of possible livelihood option towards independent living. Recovered patients engaged in block printing unit are remunerated under the minimum wages act of the state.

Hand block printing using woode...minimum wages act of the state.

Hand block printing using wooden stamps dipped in colours to create scarves, stoles, napkins is a skills training process by Anjali, an NGO run by Ratnaboli, provided to the patients living in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital as a source of possible livelihood option towards independent living. Recovered patients engaged in block printing unit are remunerated under the minimum wages act of the state.

The lady in the front is cleani...ospital which is run by Anjali.

The lady in the front is cleaning the trey whereas the lady in the back is preparing food in the Canteen. Canteen is a small kind of restaurant within Calcutta Pavlov Hospital which is run by Anjali.

A person is getting guidance fr...ng in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital.

A person is getting guidance from Sagnik Mukherjee a theatre practitioner designated as a Theatre trainer in Anjali, the NGO run by Ratnaboli in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital.. Theatre is a tool used to build autonomy, agency, skills of persons living in Calcutta Pavlov Hospital.

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The Guardian_‘A breakthrough, not a breakdown’: one woman’s quest to transform mental health care in India_2021

Copyright Ranita Roy 2024

Updated Dec 2021

Location India

Topics Health/Healing, Journalism, Mental Illness, NGO, Photography, Photojournalism

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