Psychiatrist Vikram
Patel, one of the three Indians on Time Magazine’s list of 100
most influential people in the world, is a bit of an antithesis. He’s a
“non-psychiatric†psychiatrist, in some ways more of an anthropologist. He
disdains “ivory tower†academia, though he’s a tenured professor at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He founded his NGO Sangath in Goa but
at any given time he’s working on at least a
has worked with Outlook Traveller, Mint and Tehelka. He now freelances, and his latest hobby-horse is science journalism.
