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Here's how Mumbaikars perceive mental illness

An American photographer and a city-based mental health activist spent five days traipsing through Mumbai to document how people perceive mental illness

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The header of this piece is enough to remind many of Joey Tribbiani (Matt Le Blanc) of the hit TV sitcom Friends, who is famous for asking the question as a pickup line. But when posed with the same question daily, we often struggle to settle on an answer, other than a binary i.e. "good" or "bad". Most of us go for the first one because of the fear of judgment that follows or we'll brand it as a sort of confession session. And we'll confess we say the same thing, when Arushi Sethi asks, "How are you doing today?"

The 24-year-old activist and entrepreneur behind mental health organisation Trijog in Mumbai has been busy asking questions along with 69-year-old American photographer Peter Maeck, whom she met at the World Mental Health Congress in New Delhi last year.

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