Episode 38- What Makes Grameen Mental Health: Unravelling rural maansik swasthya (part 1)

In September 2017 KL met 12 year old Ritisha Kesharwani, a young dancer in Karwi Chitrakoot. Ritisha showed off her skills, grooving and doing backflips to Dil Disco Disco Kare Saari Raat Sajna — her reigning favourite number.   Descended into the quiet and then not-so-quiet hell of 2021, where the second wave of this darn virus has made its way into rural U.P — you’ll have to forgive us if we want to loiter a minute or two, in that carefree space where dil disco disco kare (the heart does the disco).  Ritisha, a student of the Michael Jackson Dance Academy (named after MJ), happened to perform her dance routine under the not-so-keen gaze of her mother. Perhaps Mrs. Kesharwani