Lance Larsens poem captures a particular kind of parental dissonance: the desire to honour ones child as they are now, while occasionally startled by a past that appears in mundane momentscontrasting the experiences of transpeople in a collective home in Bhopal. 2026, Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.
A new era of digital memory invites society to confront the silences of the archive and rethink the politics of collective remembrance. 2025, Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have gained clinical prominence yet often omit the ethical and ontological dimensions central to Buddhist traditions. Building on the public health analysis by Oman (2025) of mindfulness along 14 axes (A1A14), which finds alignment on prevention, stress/mental health, resilience, and multisectoral collaboration but identifies gaps in epidemiologic foundations, multilevel intervention design, cultural/religious adaptation, equity, and attention to the collective attentional environment, we propose a Dharma-guided model that directly addresses these implementation challenges (A6A13). Specifically, we outline: (a) culturally responsive adaptations that preserve ethical integrity; (b) multilevel delivery (individual, group, institution, and community) through stepped-care and community-owned pathways; (c) clinician competencies in intercultural/interreligious literacy; (d) metrics and study designs that build the missing epidemiologic base; and (e) interventions responsive to societys attentional environment. This public health-oriented translation repositions MBIs as vehicles for existential insight, moral development, and culturally grounded healing with population-level relevance, complementing the agenda of Oman (2025) and advancing an implementation-ready framework for diverse settings. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025.
