While brainstorming on the content for India's first Mental Health Festival, psychologist Dr Sujata Minhas and project manager Hitesh Sanwal were clear that the event will focus only on mental health and not mental illness. The two concepts, they realised, were being increasingly used interchangeably. "In India, we don't have a concept of mental health. 'Mental health' and 'mental illness' tend to be spoken about as if they mean the same thing, but that isn't true. Mental health is essentially mental well-being. It refers to our emotion and thoughts, our ability to cope with stress, work productively and contribute to society. The basic difference is that while everyone has mental health, not everybody has a mental illness," she says. However, the numbers when it comes to the latter are growing, she says.