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Reality Check

The Right to Comfort: What We Get Wrong About Access to End-of-Life Medicines

The Right to Comfort: What We Get Wrong About Access to End-of-Life Medicines

India talks about healthcare access as the fight to keep people alive, but forgets what happens when that fight ends. For patients at the end of life, even basic pain relief can become a journey through pharmacies, hospitals and paperwork. Dignity in dying should be part of what healthcare access means.

Reading for Change

The Silent Syndicate: How Big Finance is Destroying India’s Healthcare

The Silent Syndicate: How Big Finance is Destroying India’s Healthcare

From hospitals to health insurance, The Silent Syndicate reveals how foreign investment has transformed India's healthcare landscape. Here is why the book deserves a place on every public health professional's reading list.

Poetic Prescriptions

Of Solidarity and Inevitable Politics

Of Solidarity and Inevitable Politics

Can we ever truly be apolitical? A reflection on solidarity, student protests, and why every choice to act, or remain silent, is inevitably political.