16/04/2026
https://www.dawinderbansal.com/single-post/invisible-yet-indispensable
Hi everyone,
I’ve just published a new blog on my website: Invisible Yet Indispensable
The title comes from a recent experience that meant a great deal to me: being invited to speak at the House of Lords as a key speaker in a roundtable titled Invisible Yet Indispensable: The Mental Health, Wellbeing and Rights of Adult Carers in the South Asian Community in the UK.
In this new blog, I reflect on caring, visibility, storytelling, and what happened after I shared my experience more openly. It’s also about the reality that so many carers hold families and systems together while remaining unseen themselves.
If you’d like to read it, it’s now live on my website. And if it resonates, I’d really appreciate you sharing it.
It is 2am. I am sitting at my desk, having taken a while to get the family member I care for settled for the night. I could have chosen to go to sleep. Instead, I chose to write. By this time of night, my eyes are tired and my vision is beginning to blur, but the need to get my words onto the page f...
