Health
Leprosy: The curable disease seen as a curse
The Leprosy Mission is the Charity Partner for our flagship Ideas for India conference, part of the annual India Week. While leprosy has been curable since the 1980s, existing laws...
- Author Louise Timmins
- Date February 2, 2024
- Read More
Oxfam India: 1% Surcharge on richest 10% to reduce inequality
The gap between the top 10% asset holders and the bottom 10% is 500 times in rural India but is shockingly 50,000 times in urban areas, Oxfam, the British founded...
- Author Tikender Singh Panwar
- Date January 19, 2022
- Read More
Join our Covid Appeal today
Donate here Together, we can make a difference. The current wave of Covid-19 is devastating India. Recent mass gatherings, more contagious variants and a lack of adequate healthcare infrastructure have...
- Author Bridge India
- Date April 29, 2021
- Read More
Indian government needs to empower women beyond constitutionalising maternity leave
India needs to work for gender inclusive policies rather than specifically focusing on women welfare to increase female employment Discrimination against women and girls is a long-running phenomenon pervasive across...
- Author Surbhi Jain
- Date March 14, 2021
- Read More
Vaccine Bandhan: Nursing the Neighbourhood
The Republic of India has set a exemplary global example of providing free assistance in the form of Covid-19 vaccines under a “Neighbourhood First Approach” by reaching out to friends,...
- Author Priyajit Debsarkar
- Date January 24, 2021
- Read More
India’s response to Covid: The world’s fastest and deepest lockdown
The world’s fastest and deepest lockdown from 25 March led commentators within the country and outside to remark in unison that Narendra Modi once again showed he was a Prime...
- Author Supriyo Chaudhuri
- Date November 24, 2020
- Read More
India’s healthcare response to Covid-19
At first it seemed that India had been sheltered from the Covid-19 pandemic. Early action to restrict international travel by the government and state level precautions seemed to be holding...
- Author Lakshmi Santhosh Maithel
- Date October 6, 2020
- Read More
India needs health education as a core part of its school curriculum
2019 is an important year for Indian education. The Draft National Education Policy has recommended the doubling of public funding on education to 6% of GDP. This would be a...
- Author Dr Rahul Mehra
- Date November 5, 2019
- Read More