In the background of social psychiatry, the relevance of cultural diversity and mental health is discussed with reference to Assam and Deepali Dutta by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in his fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Assam’s contribution to social psychiatry” published in Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune.