This fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das, titled “Novel approach for novel threat” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune focuses on the Editorial, “A novel approach to address the novel threat” by Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, Shyamanta Das, Suresh Bada Math, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Lakshmanan S, Kailash Karthik, Pomi Baruah, Najeeb Hazarika, Hardeep Singh Bambrah, Kanika Suri; the Monon: Assam Cares programme, and published in the January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.