India Together: TB: Dangerous comeback – 21 February 2012
It is frightening to think of how the new drug resistant strain of tuberculosis is going to spread in crowded, unhygienic, urban India. Doctors are worried. Ramesh Menon reports. 21…
India Together: The Superbugs are here – III – 08 November 2011
08 November 2011 – Across the globe, various concerns are being voiced about a gene that causes a wide range of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics; the gene was…
India Together: Special support needed – 26 September 2011
HIV-positive children in Assam and their families need more than the usual measures of state support for their economic, medical and social needs. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports. 26 September 2011…
India Together: An eye for empowerment – 25 July 2011
Mritunjay Tiwary has brought eyesight to tens of thousands of people through his eye hospital in rural Bihar. But his vision of development extends much farther. Ruchi Choudhary reports. 25…
India Together: The Superbugs are here – II – 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 – In the last century, penicillin was the wonder drug. In India, it was one of the most potent drugs to fight bacterial infections that otherwise killed…
India Together: All power is within you – 07 June 2011
The Hathkhola Medical Bank touches thousands of lives each year, quietly and determinedly led by Ashish Das’s self-belief. Ruchi Choudhary reports. 07 June 2011 – I came to know about…
India Together: The Superbugs are here – 31 May 2011
31 May 2011 – The doctors are cheerful when they walk into Pradeep Aggarwal’s room. They crack jokes with the middle-aged man, who has been admitted into a posh south…
India Together: Traumatised by violence – 24 May 2011
Women in Kashmir do not physically encounter violence as much as men do, but their feelings of helplessness and subsequent guilt resulting from the violence around them is taking a…
India Together: The masculinisation of India – 18 April 2011
The child sex ratio continues to follow the worsening trend established over four decades ago. Demographers predict that India’s population will remain overly masculine for decades. Kannan Kasturi reports. 18…
India Together: Reaching the unserved in cities – 18 April 2011
The failure in India is the major reason why the UN cannot meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 2.6 billion in the world without sanitation by 2015. South…