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What Happens When Patients, Caregivers, and Public Health Practitioners Work Together?

What Happens When Patients, Caregivers, and Public Health Practitioners Work Together?

This article reconstructs a dialogue from a recent forum discussion on sickle cell disease (SCD) in rural Chhattisgarh. What unfolds is not just a discussion on a disease, but a layered understanding of suffering, systems, and the power of community.

Poetic Prescriptions

Healing Words

Healing Words

A collection of poems of the author who reminisces going through sexual violence and their journey of healing

ByRitash | May 17, 2026

Frames of Reality

Not Poor Enough for the Data: Inside India’s Way of Measuring Poverty

Not Poor Enough for the Data: Inside India’s Way of Measuring Poverty

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

ByParth Sharma and Tarini Shipurkar | Jan 21, 2026

Bitter Pills

Dear Doctor, Thank You

Dear Doctor, Thank You

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

ByParth Sharma | Oct 21, 2024