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Kanika Sharma

Ramdev is wrong, India should not adopt a punitive approach to population control

Studies on India’s two-child policy show that the burden of disqualifications and disincentives is invariably borne by the already marginalised.

Kanika Sharma
&
Mohan Rao
· Feb 12, 2019 · 02:30 pm
To fix India’s flailing public health system, health sub-centres need to be improved first

Health sub-centres are the first points of contact between people and the public health system. But many sub-centres need to do much better.

Kanika Sharma
· Dec 09, 2017 · 02:30 pm
Pain is the silent epidemic that India's health systems are failing to handle

Pain is observed, assessed and treated differently depending on a person's age, gender and economic status.

Kanika Sharma
· Feb 27, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Two years after 18 women died at tubectomy camp, little has changed at India's sterilisation drives

Scenes from an event in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh.

Kanika Sharma
· Nov 12, 2016 · 02:30 pm