With a population of 1.4 billion, India carries an enormous and largely unmet mental health burden. For a staggering majority, access to mental health support remains a general, almost abstract idea. The need is real and well-documented. What is missing are the systems capable of addressing it, systems that are either inaccessible, underfunded, or absent entirely. India is home to 1.4 billion people, and yet for a staggering majority, mental health support remains a general, almost abstract idea. The need exists without question. The systems designed to meet that need, however, are largely inaccessible, chronically underfunded, or altogether absent. In