Harshvardhan Sampath and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) chaired the symposium where Niska Sinha spoke on ‘Practice of women mental health after COVID era: what lies ahead’, Debadatta Mahapatra spoke on ‘Neuropsychiatric disorders post COVID… challenges for future’, and Archana Singh spoke on ‘Children and adolescent in aftermath of COVID 19: challenges ahead and innovation to handle education and behaviour’ in the 46th Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, Eastern Zonal Branch (CEZIPS 2021) at Agartala, Tripura.