‘Openmind’ is a journal published by Mind, the National Association for Mental Health for England and Wales. Suman Fernando has been writing in Openmind since 1992, with a regular column since January 2004. Some of the articles he has written in Openmind are reproduced here with the permission of the editor of Openmind, Kathryn Perry.  The articles are meant for the general reader and, being necessarily short, they do not go into issues and topics in much depth. Readers are invited to e-mail Suman with comments and to contact him if you wish to discuss further any matters referred to in these articles. Many of the topics dealt with in these articles are pursued at greater length and depth in books, particularly, Mental Health, Race and Culture (second edition, 2002) and Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry (2003).