Whispers of Care

A Living Archive of Mental Health Care in India

Whispers of Care is a living archive documenting everyday practices of mental health care across psychiatric hospitals, halfway homes, and community programmes in India. The archive traces how care is experienced in everyday life through moments of support, constraint, resistance, and survival. It holds voices and practices that are often softened, silenced, or rendered invisible within institutional accounts of care.

What this archive holds

Zines

Visual and textual experiments emerging from fieldwork

Field Stories

Ethnographic accounts from diverse mental health care settings

Your Voice

Contributions from people with lived experience of mental health care