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It's always a great tragedy whenever a lively, creative, and genuinely talented individual loses their potential to an addiction. Here's...

The arts and business don’t mix. They should. They need to. But no one likes to talk about the two together. I’ve been a published fiction author for six years and, since 1998, I’ve worked in many forms of marketing. I now have the pleasure of combining my two storytelling passions as a brand consultant for various clients, as well as lecturing on self-branding for creatives at London’s Raindance Film School. In that time I’ve learned that people don’t feel comfortable discov

The end of November once again brings with it the internet’s favourite musical-statistics event, Spotify Wrapped.

Trigger Warning: The following article discusses themes surrounding sexual harassment and contains some explicit language. I had heard...

Has the arrival of autumn made you feel anxious? For many of us, it’s a return to a more stressful life after the summer holidays when the living was easier. We may be mourning the arrival of shorter days and longer nights; the lack of sunshine and, with, it lower levels of feel good hormones such as serotonin and dopamine; and the feeling that Winter is on its way. One answer to my own Autumnal low mood is poetry. Poets have furnished me with two new ways of thinking about t

Unveiling the Power of Compassion Last year, I completed a master’s degree in health psychology at King’s College London. Now, I am a...

This year’s theme is “Stories To Tell”, and is dedicated to celebrating the stories that contribute to the South Asian Community.

The words we use are impactful. They can be liberating, uplifting, and inspiring. But equally, they can be harmful.

A hot June day that finds me visiting the Japanese garden in our local park. Enclosed within the grounds, the garden abounds with carefully pruned maples and shrubs set between smooth, round rocks and mounds of bright green moss. At its heart is a waterfall that flows into a pond of giant carp. Image source Unsplash I sit down on one of the large slabs of stone that serves as a bridge in front of the waterfall. Then I close my eyes and listen to the water for three or four mi

Imagine, if you dare, being in charge of the care of a notorious, licentious writer whose idea of conducting research for his depraved novel

Good Girls Die Last is feminist reality wrapped in fiction I was so tired of crying. It was the summer of 2021 and the news was full of the horrors of Sarah Everard’s rape and murder in London, the MET policeman who killed her, and the peaceful vigil to honour her that the same police force broke up, resulting in yet more women getting hurt. The country was angry and so was I. Women were scared and I couldn’t remember a time when I hadn’t been. England’s capital city was once

Why do we need rituals? For a number of reasons, in many settings and situations people need rituals to give them a degree of comfort,...

Every summer my grandmother would ask my childhood self what my favourite colour is. By the time winter rolled around, she would have...

As a researcher in perinatal psychiatry, and having grown up in India, I have had the privilege of understanding pregnancy and birthing...

Once again, the consequences of prioritising financial gain above real human wellbeing and mental health are being broadcasted, clear as day

I hear it often — "You’re so lucky!" In itself, "you’re so lucky" is a perfectly innocuous phrase. There are a lot of things in my life that I can attribute to luck; the safe and affluent country in which I was born and raised, the loving family I’m surrounded by, or my happy, healthy children. Yet, when people call me lucky, they’re rarely talking about those things. They’re talking about my career. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash According to research conducted by Remitly

After a three-year-long hiatus, the Festival of Italian Literature in London (FILL) has made an exciting comeback on Saturday 22nd of...

A festival of literature and ideas bringing together writers and thinkers from different backgrounds After a three-year break due to...

I've been captivated by flamenco since I graduated from the Laban Centre London where I trained in contemporary dance and ballet in the '80s

Photo by Sophie Grieve-Williams on Unsplash With Spring comes hope. After the gloom of Winter, the days lengthen; the daffodils bloom; the sun reappears. Yet for some, counter-intuitively, the arrival of Spring can be desolate. It turns out that people attempt suicide and die more often by suicide far more often in the springtime. Things get tough just as the tulips begin to unfurl. T.S Eliot, it seems, got it right when he wrote "April is the cruellest month," in his poem T

When Inspire the Mind asked me to write a new batch of history-based articles on mental illness, in the same style as my pieces on "Glass...

While taking part in online meetings, I started to notice that, for most of the time, I look at myself onscreen. Surely not out of...

Exploring mental health through art In this article, I share some of my learnings from taking part in The Big Anxiety festival in...

‘Ted Lasso’ is an award-winning show that tells the story of an American-football coach hired to manage AFC Richmond, a British football...