
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 handful of projects, a few
research