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On March 27, as Parliament passed the new Mental Healthcare Bill that decriminalised attempt to suicide by the mentally ill and sought better healthcare for people suffering from mental illness, Health Minister J P Nadda thanked Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Twitter for his “valuable” suggestions made during a discussion on it in the Lok Sabha.

In an impassioned speech three days earlier, Tharoor had said he had “lived with a victim of mental illness” and that there was nothing sadder than witnessing “a loved one with mental illness at close quarters”. He had backed his emotional pitch with sound data