Nepal, March 1 -- When the 2015 earthquake hit Nepal, Julia Bajracharya Dahal was just minutes away from climbing the Dharahara. "I was walking behind the Dharahara with my friend when it fell," she says. The scare was such that she had an asthma attack and had to be taken to Bir Hospital and there she witnessed the real horror of what had actually happened. She was traumatized by this experience and found it hard to cope. That's when doodling came into her life as a savior.

As of 2019, Dahal runs a local, home-based doodle collection called The Orange Ink that combines the art of doodling with raising mental health awareness. Doodling is also called "The art of mindfulness'. Mindfulness is a state of being in total and pleasant awarenes...