Diaries: 2020
16th December, 2020
CMC is a national resource. All of India’s neurosurgeons were grandchildren, great-grandchildren,... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
16th December, 2020
I thought rich epidemic management is possible, in part by the Indian Constitutional division of... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Global, India politics, Indian economy
24th October, 2020
Very few people outside India’s North-East are familiar with the achievements and legacy of one of... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Sustainability, India politics, Inclusive growth
10th September, 2020
In the Covidomania atmosphere that has been prevailing for over five months, anything from a... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Global
5th September, 2020
India was once a land that worshipped trees. It was an āraṇyasanskriti, a civilisation rooted in... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
24th August, 2020
An infection in the child’s brain had left him semi-conscious, suffering continual pain from muscle... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Global
16th August, 2020
She arrived in India (Bikaner) in August 1947 unaware that she would never return to her beautiful... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Global, Jobs, India politics, Inclusive growth
18th July, 2020
It is natural for a nation to respond in swift and possibly inconvenient ways to national health... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, China-India, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
15th July, 2020
You, a common reader who is fortunate not to be a person with disability, or any one else for that... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, India politics, Inclusive growth
30th June, 2020
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Conversations, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics
24th June, 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic is often likened to the Great Influenza Pandemic or Spanish flu that... read more
Categories: COVID diary, Governance, Health, Sustainability
13th June, 2020
Epidemiology is simply the study of distribution of disease or a health condition across time,... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Inclusive growth
8th June, 2020
Thoughts and experiences from the Himalayas and metropolitan India as we live through a lockdown
Categories: COVID diary, Health, Sustainability, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
8th June, 2020
By Ishan Chauhan
Accidents happen. They are accidents because they are unforeseeable. When a... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health
6th June, 2020
Ventilators are not entirely easy to understand, even for most doctors. A relatively small... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health
5th June, 2020
Many of us live through a routine that envelops our typical working day. Days become months, and... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Sustainability
4th June, 2020
An anthropologist who has worked in India and is now locked down in her Texas home reflects on the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global
1st June, 2020
Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Conversations, COVID diary, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
31st May, 2020
As the lockdown stretched on, very unlikely scenarios unfolded in various parts of the country.... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
25th May, 2020
During the lockdown I come across a number of stories in the press that are in some way related. A... read more
Categories: Common citizen, COVID diary, Health, Inequality