In a town shaped by iron ore and labour unrest, Shaheed Hospital emerged not from charity or the state, but from collective struggle. Built by workers and run through radical democracy, it reimagines healthcare as an act of resistance, care, and solidarity.
A poem on how tuberculosis is spoken of as eliminable in policy language while persisting in bodies, homes, and margins. As targets rise, care recedes.
India’s cities thrive on invisible labour. This article shows how rural policy failures, weak labour protections, and urban informality combine to trap migrant workers in cycles of exhaustion, illness, and precarity. By design, not by accident.
Technocratic evaluations have become political tools, tearing down a programme that gave workers power and dignity. Stripped of political understanding, policy now quietly serves corporate interests at the expense of the poor.
A curable fungal infection has turned into a silent epidemic in India, driven by irrational steroid–antifungal creams, poor regulation, and structural neglect. This photostory traces how a simple itch spirals into chronic illness, resistance, and quiet suffering among the poor.
Blaming patients for getting cancer when the government sells tobacco and the health system fails them everyday is unfair.
