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The following is an article I wrote and submitted for publication in a mental health magazine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), DELHI.  “Mad is an everyday, ordinary word. It is compact. It fits into songs. As the old Hindi film song has it, M-A-D, mad maane paagal. It can become a phrase - "Maddaw-what?" which began life as "Are you mad or what?". It can be everything you choose it to be: a mad whirl, a mad idea, a mad March day, a mad heiress, a mad mad mad mad world, a mad passion, a mad dog. But it is different when you have a mad mother. Then the world wakes up from time to time and blinks at you, eyes of fire.” An excerpt from autobiographical book ‘Em and the Big Hoom’ by Jerry Pinto. It’s a story narrated from a Son’s point of view about living in a family with a bi-polar mother. In this extract the writer sardonically describes how being differently able in our society is perceived as a social stigma and how easy going and casu...