Curated articles — Hindi-language literacy, adolescent care, suicide prevention, and rural community models — that ground the human-led, AI-assisted argument.
A Hindi-first explainer of what 'mental health' (मानसिक स्वास्थ्य) means — emotional, psychological and social well-being — written for readers excluded by English-only mental-health content. Anchors the AURORA case for vernacular, low-literacy materials at Tier 0/1.
Open source →Reviews the scale of adolescent distress in India — academic pressure, social media, family conflict, identity — and argues for school-based screening, trained counsellors and family-level psychoeducation. Supports the youth pillar of AURORA's Tier 0 community layer.
Open source →Profiles Dr. Aninda Sidhana's practical toolkit for parents, teachers and friends to recognise warning signs, ask the suicide question safely, and route a young person to help. Underpins AURORA's safe-messaging and gatekeeper-training commitments under SDG 3.4.2.
Open source →Documents village-level, grassroots mental-health models in rural India — ASHA-led case-finding, peer support, faith and Panchayat spaces — as a working safety net where specialists are absent. Direct evidence base for AURORA's human-led Tier 0–1 architecture.
Open source →A vernacular explainer of depression (अवसाद) — symptoms, causes, when to seek help, and how it differs from ordinary sadness. Models the kind of Hindi clinical-literacy content AURORA proposes to deliver via Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and Tele-MANAS IVR.
Open source →Foundational psychoeducation piece: mental health is not the absence of illness but the engine of how we think, feel and act, with direct links to physical health, work and relationships. A baseline explainer for the AURORA Tier 0 awareness layer.
Open source →A patient-facing guide opening with a young professional's anxiety story, then walking through triggers, body-mind signs, grounding, breathing and when to seek a clinician. Standard reference for first-line counselling at Tier 1.
Open source →Headline numbers (1 in 7 Indians affected, 70–80% treatment gap, 0.75 psychiatrists / 100k) plus structural drivers — stigma, urban-rural divide, workforce shortage — and a hopeful policy outlook. Mirrors the AURORA problem statement in plain language.
Open source →Curated, verified list of India's free 24/7 mental-health helplines for depression, anxiety and crisis support — the kind of vetted directory AURORA's Tier 4 Tele-MANAS routing layer relies on for warm hand-offs.
Open source →A campaign reframing the everyday Hindi phrase 'Suno na, kaise ho?' as a low-cost, culturally native screening question. Demonstrates the kind of stigma-reduction message AURORA scales through faith spaces, Panchayats and Melas.
Open source →Long-form conversation with Dr. Roop Sidana — 40+ years in psychiatry and de-addiction at Sriganganagar — on dismantling stigma, the body-mind connection, addiction recovery and domestic-violence support. Senior-clinician validation of AURORA's community-based, dignity-first stance.
Open source →Professional profile documenting four decades of psychiatric and de-addiction practice in rural-adjacent Rajasthan (Sadhuwali, Sriganganagar) in English, Hindi and Punjabi — a working example of the multilingual, hub-and-spoke clinician AURORA's Tier 2/3 layer depends on.
Open source →The original published statement of MindWeave — Dr. Aninda Sidhana's survivor-informed framework integrating trauma care, post-traumatic growth and psychosexual medicine. The clinical spine of AURORA's Sidhana–Pattojoshi protocols.
Open source →Peer-reviewed account of the Mukti program (Nishkam Foundation, Northern Rajasthan): 46 of 50 chained / secluded patients treated; mean chaining duration 8.61 years; at 5-year follow-up 81% free from chains and seclusion and 37% leading near-normal lives. Direct field evidence for AURORA's rights-based, MHCA-2017-aligned Tier 0–3 outreach.
Gupta DK, Verma KK, Baniya GC, Chaurotia V, Sidana R, Khandelwal SK (2024). Road to Freedom — Unfettering & Rehabilitating Chained Mentally Ill Persons in Rural India (Mukti Program). World Social Psychiatry, 6(3), 137–145. doi:10.4103/wsp.wsp_26_24
First-person field experiences from a Mukti program volunteer on locating chained patients, negotiating with caregivers, mobilising local faith and Panchayat structures, and sustaining follow-up. Operational template for the human-led case-finding layer AURORA proposes at Tier 0.
Mukti Program volunteer narrative (Nishkam Foundation) (2024). Volunteer Perspective — Field Experiences in the Mukti Community Rehabilitation Program. World Social Psychiatry, 6(3).
Public dashboard for the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan in Sri Ganganagar — pledges, rallies, awareness programs, counselling camps, and a directory of de-addiction / rehabilitation centres including the network around Dr. Roop Sidana and the Mukti program. Demonstrates the kind of district-level convergence AURORA is designed to plug into.
District Administration, Sri Ganganagar (2024). Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan — Sri Ganganagar District Administration. Government of Rajasthan.
State-level commitment to universal mental health care: a Jaipur Centre of Excellence plus district-level Mental Health Care Cells, telemedicine integration and school-based programs. The closest live state-policy analogue of AURORA's hub-and-spoke, DMHP-aligned tier architecture.
Government of Rajasthan, Department of Medical & Health (2026). RAJ-MAMTA — Rajasthan Mental Awareness, Monitoring and Treatment for All. Rajasthan State Budget 2026–27.
Mainstream news coverage of the RAJ-MAMTA announcement: district mental-health cells and a Jaipur Centre of Excellence under CM Bhajan Lal Sharma. Useful as a citation-quality secondary source for the AURORA state-policy mapping.
NDTV Health Desk / IANS (2026). Rajasthan to set up mental health cells in districts; Jaipur to get Centre of Excellence. NDTV.
Programme detail on RAJ-MAMTA: Centre of Excellence in Jaipur, district care cells, telemedicine and school mental-health programs. Reinforces RAJ-MAMTA as a working template AURORA can plug into for Rajasthan-state implementation.
The Free Press Journal — India Desk (2026). Rajasthan Govt Plans 'Raj-Mamta' to Deliver Universal Mental Health Care. The Free Press Journal.