"How to get through this thing called life" (from the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy")
"When people say that depression will go away if you throw yourself into work, it’s a stupid thing to say, yes. It comes from an entitled place of not knowing what depression feels like, yes. But it’s what my father said to me, and it saved me then just as much it is saving me now."
- from an essay by India-born writer Vijeta Kumar
“I can’t be depressed, I am Dalit.”
Academia is obsessed with marketing mental health as a science, without bothering to locate it as something that could be produced by social realities. And in India, is there any other social reality…
thelifeofscience.com
I am posting this while remembering my dad, two weeks after the unveiling/memorial, with both gratitude and understanding for the complex, deeply flawed person he was (and all of us are).