Kancheepuram , Tamil Nadu •
Apr 07, 2023
In remote TN, women ushering mental care
For 30 years, Shanthi Sesha scoured the villages of Kancheepuram district to help persons with mental illnesses. But rural health workers like her face many roadblocks while also dealing with personal difficulties
Author
S. Senthalir
S. Senthalir is Senior Editor at People's Archive of Rural India and a 2020 PARI Fellow. She reports on the intersection of gender, caste and labour. Senthalir is a 2023 fellow of the Chevening South Asia Journalism Programme at University of Westminster.
Photographs
M. Palani Kumar
M. Palani Kumar is Staff Photographer at People's Archive of Rural India. He is interested in documenting the lives of working-class women and marginalised people.
Palani has received the Amplify grant in 2021, and Samyak Drishti and Photo South Asia Grant in 2020. He received the first Dayanita Singh-PARI Documentary Photography Award in 2022. Palani was also the cinematographer of ‘Kakoos' (Toilet), a Tamil-language documentary exposing the practice of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu.
Editor
Vinutha Mallya
Vinutha Mallya is a journalist and editor. She was formerly Editorial Chief at People's Archive of Rural India.
