Books on Toast | BoTcast Episode 32 - Books & Mental Health with Nikhil Taneja @BooksonToast | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 18 minutes ago.
A GREAT episode featuring Sharin, Anuya and Nikhil Taneja (your friendly neighbourhood writer, critic and mental health advocate), where they talk about mental health, books that they read when they were afflicted, books that humanize mental health and so much more.

Disclaimer: Just like wine, our sound improves as time goes by. Please bear with us and don't send us hate messages. (we cry)

iCALL's crowdsourced list of Mental Health Professionals We Can Trust (12 February 2018): bit.ly/2Ljhlod

Books Discussed which you can buy:

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Small Acts of Freedom by Gurmehar Kaur
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Sybil by Flora Schreiber
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Journals by Kurt Cobain
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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Men without Women by Haruki Murakami
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My Gita by Devdutt Pattanaik
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
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Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
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A Book of Simple Living by Ruskin Bond
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Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
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Sweet Valley High #1: Double Love by Francine Pascal
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman
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Episode 32: Books and Mental Health
Guest: Nikhil Taneja

Shot and edited by: Yohann Benson
Sound Recording and Mixing: Akash Kumar, Culture Shoq Productions
Venue: Cuckoo Club, Bandra, Mumbai (facebook.com/toocuckoo)

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