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Abhay Shukla
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A new book identifies malpractices in private healthcare and asks if they can be regulated
An excerpt from ‘Dreams of a Healthy India: Democratic Healthcare in Post-Covid Times’, edited by Ritu Priya and Syeda Hameed.
Abhay Shukla, Shweta Marathe & Kanchan Pawar
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Lessons from a pandemic: How India can reform its private healthcare sector
The market never regulates healthcare in public interest. States must ensure that this happens.
Abhay Shukla
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What lessons does the Covid-19 pandemic hold for India’s health system?
We must start by recognising the centrality of public health services and initiating a system upgrade.
Abhay Shukla
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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This new book contains 40 simple lunches that will keep children energetic at school
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The BJP wants an Opposition-free Gujarat. But some are putting up a fight
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Lynchings in India: A doctor explains the pathology of normalising extreme violence
Mob violence may be a form of pathological normalcy – unhealthy behaviours, which appear so commonly in society that they are considered the norm.
Abhay Shukla
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In numbers: Maharashtra’s under-funded health services keep its junior doctors in the line of fire
Violence against doctors is not about doctor-patient conflict as much as it is about lack of funds and personnel to attend to the sick.
Abhay Shukla
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With cardiac stent prices capped, can India now have greater regulation of private medical practice?
For price caps to be effective there should also be standardised costs of medical services and standard treatment guidelines.
Abhay Shukla
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming