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…
India Together: Patients’ rights on the rise – 04 April 2011
Amidst a rising tide of reports of medical negligence in the media, the courts have stepped in to interpret laws in favour of patients, and to award large punitive damages.…
India Together: By the Holy book – 16 January 2011
A family planning programme in Assam uses texts from the Holy Quran, encouraging husbands to accept sterilisation to promote the health and well-bring of their family. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports.…
India Together: Badaun cleans up its act – 30 October 2010
The Badaun district administration in UP is on a war-footing to convert all dry toilets and rehabilitate manual scavengers before the end of the year. Over the last few months…
India Together: New interventions for the deafblind – 10 July 2010
A number of development organisations are working to diagnose deafblindess in children, and provide learning tools and techniques that can mainstream them. Freny Manecksha reports. 10 July 2010 – As…