
Banyan co-founder gets global recognition
The Hindu
Vandana Gopikumar, co-founder of The Banyan, the non-governmental organisation working with people with mental illness, was recognised as one of the Heroines of Health for the year 2021 by Women in Gl
Vandana Gopikumar, co-founder of The Banyan, the non-governmental organisation working with people with mental illness, was recognised as one of the Heroines of Health for the year 2021 by Women in Global Health (WGH), a US-based global network promoting gender equality in health leadership.
In a recorded speech delivered at an online event to honour the awardees, Ms. Gopikumar thanked WGH for creating a platform where women leadership can be displayed and discourses around how leadership needed to evolve could be constructed.
She highlighted the need for leadership that was empathetic, courageous, that used both the rational and emotional mind, transparent and showed integrity and intellectual humility to address the inequities and promote social justice.

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The sixth and final day of the Tamil Isai Vizha at Tamil Isai Sangam witnessed a melodrama ‘Un Kannil Neer Vazhindal,’ (a famous song line in Kapi Raga by Kavingnar Kannadasan from the film Vietnam Veedu), by Fabs Theatre actor and news anchor Fathima Babu. The story and dialogues are by T.V. Radhakrishnan and Fathima Babu has directed the play.











