Leading by example: For many of us in Tamil Nadu, psychiatrist Dr. K. Ramakrishnan, Managing Director, Athma Mind City, Tiruchirappalli, needs no introduction. He graduated from Thanjavur Medical College in 1987 and completed his DPM in 1992, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Madurai, Medical College, then led by Prof. Dr. A. Venkoba Rao. I have known Dr. Ramakrishnan since he was a student at Madurai as at that point, I too was a faculty at the institute. Since then, our association, has over the years, has evolved, and continues stronger than ever. I have been deeply impressed by his capacity for demanding work, his determination, discipline, dedication, and devotion to his patients. After his post graduation, he established the Athma Hospitals in Trichy, which offered comprehensive community mental health services for people with mental health conditions through awareness and sensitization programmes on mental health, treatment, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Since the last two decades Dr. Ramakrishnan has emerged as a robust mental health activist who with sensitivity, compassion and insights championed the need to effectively address the stigma around mental health conditions to encourage treatment seeking behaviour on the part of persons with mental health conditions and their families…..