Reshma Valliappan, also known as Val Resh[1] (born 1980), is an artist-activist for a number of issues related to mental health, disability, sexuality and human rights.
Reshma has also been featured on CNN IBN Living It Up[6] on her reasons for not taking the conventional approach and creating platforms of help through her work The Red Door.
[8] She helped lead a campaign in 2012 during her fellowship given to her by Bhargavi Davar of The Bapu Trust to free a woman who had been found to be "of unsound mind" and imprisoned against her will in a state mental hospital.
[10] Having been trained under NCPEDP as a shadow report writer for the UNCRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)[11] she uses the term four wall problem synonymous to the Revolving door.
Reshma Valliappan was recognized with other journalist at the SCARF-PII Award 2014[12] for her piece in The Hindu titled 'On Being Normal'[13] though having no clue about what journalism is and writes because it's a form of catharsis.