Anirudh Kala, is an Indian

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based in

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. He had been an active participant in the

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(IPS) for forty years and had raised awareness about mental health legislation and related issues among Indian psychiatrists. He is clinical director of The Mind Plus, an acute psychiatric care clinic in Ludhiana. Kala is founding president of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry and founding president of Indo-Pak

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Psychiatric Society. The latter is a cross border initiative forging links between mental health professionals of Indian and Pakistani Punjab provinces. Partly based on interactions with Pakistani colleagues and visits to mental health institutes he wrote an anthology of short stories, The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition & Madness. A novel, "Two and a Half Rivers' about the nineteen eighties' militancy in Punjab was published in 2021. Kala was invited in 2011 by the

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, to be member of an expert group tasked with formulating the first ever Mental Health Policy for the country. The group submitted the policy document to the Health Minister on 29 September 2014. The policy was launched by the government on the World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2014 to mixed reactions. On 1 February 2014, Kala resigned from the membership of the Indian Psychiatric Society in protest against

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statements made by the president of the society at the society's annual conference and subsequent refusal by society to make amends

References

'', 3 August 2013, retrieved 25 February 2014 *Aarefa Johari, Scroll.in,"Anti-gay remarks by departing president set off storm in Indian Psychiatric Society" http://scroll.in/article/654567/anti-gay-remarks-by-departing-president-set-off-storm-in-indian-psychiatric-society,retrieved,21 April 2015 *Kala A K. Covert medication; the last option: A case for taking it out of the closet and using it selectively. Indian J Psychiatry erial online2012 ited 2015 Apr 2254:257-65. Available from: http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2012/54/3/257/102427 *Kala A. Time to face new realities; mental health care bill-2013. Indian J Psychiatry erial online2013 ited 2015 Apr 2255:216-9. Available from: http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2013/55/3/216/117129 *Kala A K. Of ethically compromising positions and blatant lies about 'truth serum'. Indian J Psychiatry erial online2007 ited 2015 Apr 2249:6-9. Available from: http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2007/49/1/6/31512 * http://speakingtigerbooks.com/books/the-unsafe-asylum/

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