Srinagar, Aug. 25 -- For over thirty years, he has watched how violence leaves its mark on the minds of people in Kashmir. He does not speak with flair, yet every word he says carries the weight of lived experience.

That afternoon, his words felt less like a lecture and more like the voice of someone who has spent years tracing the edges of human pain.

The hall was filled with doctors, teachers, journalists, and students attending a program on Handling Emerging Mental Health Challenges Among Adolescents and Youth.

SAWAB, the organization Margoob founded in the 1990s to take psychiatry beyond clinics, had partnered with SKIMS Medical College, IMHANS-K, and the Voluntary Medicare Society.

The seating was formal, but the mood was raw. Ev...