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The man who brought light to the world was thrown into darkness as a child because his school found him mentally disturbed. As Thomas Alva Edison grew up to be a scientist, came his sharp satire: “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”
Little did he know that what he called ‘function’ would change to a ‘pain’ in about 150 years, with mental health disorders vitiating more than 14% of the 8 Bn lives on this planet.
In India, home to the world’s largest population, at least 15% of adults are in need of…
