In the fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Psychological impact of COVID-19” of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) highlights the original paper: research article, “The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated risk factors during the initial stage among the general population in India” by Mythili Hazarika, Shyamanta Das, Samrat Singh Bhandari, and Phulen Sharma, published in the January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.