Actor Darasing Khurana has received the Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Award for his work towards raising awareness around mental health issues as the 'Commonwealth Year of Youth Champion'.

• Khurana, 32, the Indian actor and philanthropist, also served as the keynote speaker at the Global Mental Health Summit 2024 at the Oxford University’s historic Oxford Union before heading over to Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
• At CHOGM, the model-turned-actor is moderating a session on mental health with the Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland and Under Secretary General of the United Nations Rabab Fatima.
• He hopes to highlight the work of his India-based Pause.Breathe.Talk Foundation, which aims to provide affordable therapy to all sections of society.