In India, apart from people who pursue biology in higher education or people educated in schools which focus on a holistic approach, no one understands their own body well. This gap in education and information about this crucial subject is further maintained and widened by hierarchical social structures such as caste and class.

Access to knowledge  which is meant to belong to everyone, is often restricted to an elite few individuals.

Information about their own bodies and health is often gatekept from the very people it affects by being locked behind paywalls in journals and via language and comprehension barriers. This then prevents people from being able to make their own health decisions in an informed manner. It also makes them susceptible to medical misinformation.

In order to challenge that, I love to deconstruct the subject of medicine and health and present it to people to whom it rightfully belongs in a simple and easy manner. In doing so, I hope that we can collectively make informed decisions and also be better advocates. 

And this is where a miniature anatomically accurate model of the human body has helped me immensely. It has helped me not only make information easily understandable to everyone, it also sparks curiosity and joy in everyone who comes in contact with it.

These miniature human body models are almost lifelike! People young and old  get excited to see them, remove their parts and have fun with them saying things like,  'tumhaara dil mere paas hai' (Your heart is with me).

In using these human body models, we hope to bypass barriers to health information, to help people understand their bodies and to reclaim their right to health related knowledge and information.