Meet the Team
India’s first platform for quality mental health journalism
Founder-Editor
Raksha Kumar
Raksha Kumar is a human rights journalist, with special focus on social justice and equality. She has reported from over 150 districts in India and 13 countries around the world.
She has written for The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, NPR, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Open Democracy, Forbes, South China Morning Post, Article-14, Scroll.in and The Hindu.
Her reporting focuses on issues such as conflict, wealth inequalities, politics, law, policy, patriarchy, caste, food insecurity, water use, climate crisis, ocean pollution, free speech, resource extraction, and infrastructure development, especially in the context of rights of minorities and the most vulnerable communities. More about her: PERSPECTIVE – A Worldview.
In 2018, she secured a grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation to report on mental health in India and published stories on suicides, depression and stigma around mental illnesses with a clear focus on gender.
She was awarded the Karnataka Women Achievers Award, Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Media Personality, UK Achievers Award and UNFPA Laadli Award for gender sensitive reporting.
As a Fulbright scholar, she graduated from the Journalism School at Columbia University in 2011. She was a Summer Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2021. And a Chevening Fellow at the University of Westminster in 2015. As a Scripps Howard Fellow, she reported from Israel and the West Bank in 2011.
“As an editor, I believe in leaving the style of the journalist undisturbed, while ensuring thorough reportage and adding value to the story.”
Lead, Design and Documentation
Sarita Ramamoorthy
Sarita has nearly 20 years of combined experience in programme management, copyediting, and documentation, working with regional and international non-profit organisations like Focus on the Global South and Hri Southasian.
She has coordinated cross-border teams and projects in South Asia and East Asia, managing donor-funded programs, ensuring donor compliance, and leading research and documentation initiatives. More about her: The Orange Box.
As an independent consultant, she has copy edited first-time authors, researchers, and nonprofit teams in over 75 projects, shaping their work for publication. Some of the published manuscripts she copyedited include Encountering Kundalini: Revelations by a Neurologist (2025), Introspecting Change: Nepal’s Economic Awakening (2023), Coloring my Greyness (2023), and Being People (2019).
An architect by training, her approach to design is unique. At the Free Speech Collective (FSC), as a core member of the team, she leads the design and development of the website. Her design and content work focuses on supporting nonprofits and independent journalists.
She holds a master’s degree in Asia Pacific Studies from the Australian National University, Canberra.