HINGE: (Re)Discovering Emotional and Mental Wellness

by Vandana Kohli

  1. ISBN: 978-93-90547-71-5
  2. Pages: 224 pages
  3. Date: 1st March 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A wonderfully thoughtful book for everyone to reflect upon.

—Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon

Hinge addresses, simply and elegantly, the complex working of emotions, to better understand their cause and effect.

—Cyrus P Mistry, Business Leader

In an era of remarkable change and uncertainty, this book focuses on hinges of emotional and mental wellness. Presented in three sections, it explores how the inner may fragment and what may help in making it whole, again.

Section I scans largely the ecosphere of ‘Normal’ in, though not limited to, the Indian context. Section II probes social and psychological triggers to emotions that cause inner strain and distress. Section III observes what within us, when processed, may shift to hinge us back again to a sense of onward flow, stable and centred.

Drawing on the author’s extensive research for films on anger, biotechnology and depression, professional and personal notes on patterns of mind over two decades, as well as inferring from India’s centuries-old tradition of the mind, this book will help readers in unravelling deeper layers within, for their own wellness and for those who surround them.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Vandana Kohli is a filmmaker and writer with an interest in the human mind, behaviour and efficiency. Educated in Film, History and Commerce from the best schools in India, Vandana has won awards for excellence at each institute. She majored in film editing at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and has attended the Professional Program for Producers at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Vandana has received acclaim for her films on anger and depression. She wrote a weekly column on mind-emotion-psych for a leading weekly magazine from 2012 until 2018, and has served twice on the jury for the National Film Awards.

Vandana loves to sing and play old Indian film songs on the piano and guitar. She is married and lives in Mumbai and Delhi.