Dr Ajai R. Singh MD is a Psychiatrist, Editor, Researcher and Poet based in Mumbai, India.

Dr Singh has his consulting rooms at Ashirwad Maternity & Nursing Home, Mulund, Mumbai, India, where he does general psychiatric practice, with pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and electro-convulsive therapy, if needed. Know More

He is Editor Mens Sana Monographs, which is a PubMed indexed International Journal and Monograph Series devoted to the understanding of 'Medicine, Mental Health, Man, Mind, Music and their Matrix'.

Starting in 2003, Mens Sana Monographs is in its 16th year of publication. It has an Eminent International Editorial Advisory Board of specialists in the field of mental health, social sciences, journalology, consciousness studies and philosophy. See "About Journal"

Special Issues of the Journal

What Medicine means to me - 2006
Brain, Mind and Consciousness - 2011
BPS Presidential Addresses - 2015

Dr. Singh has written extensively on matters related to conceptual issues in psychiatry, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, journalology and the pharmaceutical industry. See Publications.

Dr. Singh has delivered various Orations, besides addressing various symposia in India and abroad. See below.

Recent Orations/Lectures/Addresses

1. Endowment Lecture, VPM’s College, Mulund, Mumbai, India, 4 Jan 2010. Topic, ‘Sleep disorders: what can you do to help yourself? ’.

2. Dr. [Mrs] Dhanalakshmi De Sousa Oration, Dept of Psychiatry and LTMG Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India, 13 Oct 2010. Topic, ‘The road ahead: for Indian, psychiatric and medical research’.

3. Aditya Pendse Memorial Lecture' at Pune, India, under the auspices of the Schizophrenia Awareness Association [SAA] on 24 May 2012 titled, 'Schizophrenia: New Hopes'.

4. Bombay Psychiatric Society Presidential Address 20 April 2014. Topic, ‘Blueprint for an Indian Nobel Laureate in Psychiatry’.
Read it here.
Read all BPS Presidential Addresses Published as one MSM Volumn here.

5. The Canvas Askew Series. India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24 April 2015. Topic, ‘Psychiatry: Where are we and where do we go from here?’.

Dr. Ajai Singh also addressed the Wisdom Symposium of the American Psychiatric Association at San Francisco in 2014.

He has also authored various book chapters in psychiatry. The latest was in 2016, Bioethics of Positive Psychiatry in the APP book, Positive Psychiatry - A clinical handbook (Ed Dilip Jeste and Barton Palmer). Read More

Dr Singh underwent formal training for more than 25 years in North Indian Classical Music from his revered Guruji, the late Shri Vinayak Kunte. He learnt the art of emotive singing and the appreciation of poetry from his late father.
See his article What Music Means to Me

Dr Singh is fluent in English, Hindi and Urdu, besides beong able to converse in Marathi and Gujarati.

Being himself a poet, he understands the subtleties and nuances of the ghazal and the nazm.

Dr. Singh is the Founder President of a not-for-profit music organisation called Swara Sampada with branches in Mulund, Thane, Lonavla and Pune in Maharashtra, India. Its mission is, 'To help in the evolution of Bathroom singers into Living room singers, Living room singers into Stage singers, and Stage singers into Playback singers and Composers'.

He has written its definitive text, The Swara Sampada Source book of Music, which is a step by step guide to how anyone interested in music can train to be a singer. Dr Singh believes almost anyone who can talk can sing, provided a positive, nurturing environment is provided. Swara Sampada is a shining example of this. See Sargam Articles

In 2016, Sony DADC brought out his latest Music Album of original music, Khushnuma Raat Hai. This album has 2 Ghalib ghazals besides 4 other songs penned by Dr Singh himself. Buy it now.
His next Album called, 'Mukhtalif Mohabbatein' i.e. different forms of love, is ready for release.

Ghalib and his poetry has been an abiding interest of Dr Singh from the time he visited the 'Ghalib ki Haveli' while on a lecture tour to New Delhi. He believes Ghalib is the most appreciated but the least understood of Urdu poets. To remedy this, On 16th Feb 2018, to coincide with Ghalib's death anniversary, Dr Singh started a YouTube Channel, 'Ghalib, Ghalib and only Ghalib'.