Lalita du Perron talks to psychiatrist Apurva Bhatt about her Stanford clinic, meeting the needs of adolescents and children with mental health challenges, and attitudes towards mental health in the South Asian community.

Intro and outro: Roslyn by Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, creator of Sitar for Mental Health. Many thanks for allowing us to use the music! Find out more at rishabsharma.com.

Mental Health Resources:

988 - mental health emergency

Child Mind Institute (childmind.org)

Brown Girl Therapy/Sahaj Kaur Kohli (sahajkaurkohli.com)

Rcoz.us

Lalita du Perron talks to Arfa Khanum Sherwani about her JS Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford and her long-standing work with the Indian independent news outlet The Wire (thewire.in).

Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford Anthropology PhD student Saad Lakhani about his work on the Tehreek-e Labaik Pakistan (TLP), also known as the anti-blasphemy movement.

Lalita du Perron welcomes Kalpana Desai, President of the Society for Arts and Cultural Heritage of India to talk about the history and evolution of SACHI and an upcoming event at Stanford about the novel Wave.

Lalita du Perron talks to CSA-Markaz fellow Zarif Ahsan and Abbasi-Markaz fellow Arwa Faruk, who both identify as Bangladeshi-American, about recent events in Bangladesh.

Lalita du Perron talks to Mayuranki Almaula and Kiran Malhotra about the speakers, artists, scholars, and poets who will be joining us for the South Asian Literature and Arts festival this year. Get your tickets here and check out this year's program @salafestival.org. Hosted by the Center for South Asia at Stanford on September 28-29, 2024.

Questions? Email southasiainfo@stanford.edu

Lalita du Perron talks to Ambika Sahay of Artforum SF about the origin and importance of the South Asian Literature and Arts Festival (SALA), which will be cohosted by the Stanford Center for South Asia at the end of September 2024.

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