Fear Of Crowds, War Sketches: Mental Health Concerns For Manipur Children

Many internally displaced children living in relief camps in Manipur are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

An unsuspecting village comes under attack. Line pencil sketch of unarmed villagers come out to thwart off the advancing armed miscreants approaching the village on armoured vehicles, each with mounted automatic weapons firing away, depicted by a series of dashes, signifying bullets flying towards the opponent side.

Village guards are seen putting up a fight, retaliating from the cover of a bunker. The violence is happening in the foothills of four sloping green mountains with a yellow sun shining bright in the sky.

This pencil sketch was made by an eight-year-old boy, Khamba (name changed), whose house in Manipur's Churachandpur was completely set on fire on May 3.