Held · Sun, 27 Sept, 2026
Mi Ashtapailu 6.0 — Final Round
For: Finalists
The final round of Season 6.
Manodaya Trust · community work
Mental health, taken out of the clinic.
Most of what determines whether a person gets help is decided long before they reach a psychiatrist — in families, schools and workplaces. The trust works there.
Mi Ashtapailu · मी अष्टपैलू
“Experiences, not competition.”
Now in its sixth season, Mi Ashtapailu is built on the idea that intelligence is not one thing to be ranked. It works through eight of them — musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, naturalistic, intrapersonal and visual-spatial — and asks students of Std 7 to 9 to find out which are theirs.
It is run as a contest with rounds and a final, and described by its organisers as an experience rather than a competition — which, for children being measured against each other everywhere else, is the point of it.
Running all year
Beyond the dated events, three programmes run continuously.
Palakshala · पालकशाळा
A school for parents — sessions on raising children, handling adolescence, and the questions parents are afraid to ask out loud.
Janeev · जाणीव
Public awareness work, taking mental health out of the clinic and into the community.
Stress Management
Workshops and group sessions for schools, workplaces and the general public.
Recently held
Kept here so you can see the sort of thing the trust runs, and ask to be told about the next one.
Held · Sat, 26 Sept, 2026
Mi Ashtapailu 6.0 — Second Round
For: Participants through from round one
Round two of three.
Held · Sun, 6 Sept, 2026
Mi Ashtapailu 6.0 — First Round
For: Registered participants, Std 7 to 9
Round one of three.
Held · Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 · 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mi Ashtapailu 6.0 — Mentoring Session
मी अष्टपैलू ६.० — मार्गदर्शन सत्र
For: Students of Std 7 to 9, and their parents
The guidance session that opens Season 6. Experts introduce the eight intelligences the programme is built on, and what the rounds ask of a participant.
📍 Kamtekar’s Mini Banquet, RP 8 Milapnagar, Mamta Hospital Cross Road, near Hotel Santosh Palace MIDC, Dombivli East
Held · Sun, 12 Jul, 2026 · 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Parenting Unlocked — How to Raise Happy Teens
For: Parents of adolescents
A full-day workshop with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Bhooshan Shukla, on the adolescent brain, parenting styles, communication, habits and discipline, and the questions parents find hardest to ask.
📍 Kudaldeshkar Hall, Rajaji Path, opposite Utkarsh Scan Centre, Dombivli East
Held · Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 · 5:00 pm
Unnat Manas Sanman Puraskar
For: Open
The centre’s silver-jubilee award function, felicitating people living with or recovering from mental illness and those working alongside them. Chief guest: Dr. Bharat Vatwani, psychiatrist and Ramon Magsaysay Awardee.
📍 1st Floor, Brahman Sabha Hall, Dombivli East
Bring a session to your school or workplace
Palakshala, stress management and awareness sessions are run for schools, housing societies and workplaces around Dombivli. Ring to discuss what you need.
Manas Psychological Health Centre, Ramnagar, Dombivli (East), Maharashtra 421 201