
Observing the current trend of hollowing out of public healthcare and the unregulated increase in privatisation and insurance-based healthcare, the author predicts that by 2030, even the rich will not be able to afford hospital visits in this incisive story.

An investigative analysis of the 2025 Madhya Pradesh cough syrup tragedy, revealing how India's poor drug regulatory system has contributed to the global problem of toxic contamination in children’s medicines.




The Multidimensional Poverty Index misses the reality of everyday hardship. Homes, water, schools, and healthcare may exist on paper but broken systems, debt, and poor quality leave families struggling unseen. See what the data hides

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.





Blaming patients for getting cancer when the government sells tobacco and the health system fails them everyday is unfair.



