Vidya Chathoth is a doctor, a medical writer, a teacher, and an author. She resides in Kannur. Her first book, Reel to Real, was published in 2016. Through a characterization of the personality types portrayed in cinema, this book explored the role of cinema in mental health. She regularly blogs on It’s all in the mind . Her writing spans a broad spectrum of domains and includes cinema, society and culture, fiction, and mental health, but they are all fundamentally explorations of the possibilities of the human mind. She aspires to initiate a campaign on mental health awareness, and all her writings are centered on this goal. She believes that the key to happiness is in unlocking one’s potential and in becoming all that one is capable of becoming; she aspires to educate, inspire and motivate people towards such a path.
