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Five Bright Spots and Four Causes For Worry From The First Official Indian Health Survey In A Decade

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare finally released the findings of the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), India's primary source of data on public health,...

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Human Rights

The Juxtaposition Of Disability And Gender Rights

Women, in particular, are rendered invisible despite the fact that Deepa Malik is breaking barriers as the first Indian to bring home a medal from the Paralympics The first...

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Human Rights

Protecting The Rights Of Tribals

Recently, Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA), an Emirati investor, initiated an investment treaty arbitration (ITA) claim against India under the India-UAE Bilater...

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Health

India Needs A Multi-Payer System

For most developing economies, a single public healthcare financing system is unlikely to effectively cover the entire population The 2017 Union budget presented some major...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Power Of Movies To Change Our Hearts

When I was a child in Georgia, my mother would say, “drink some water now,” and “use the bathroom before we go,” so that when we got downtown, we wo...

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Trending

Millennials And Myth Of Gender Equality

I recently ran into a former schoolmate around Raffles Place, and, after we exchanged the requisite pleasantries, he asked: "How come you're not wearing heels and makeup? I...

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Gender

Why The Gender Pay Gap Is Not A Myth

When I hear the gender pay gap denounced as a myth, the critic typically claims that the gap is imagined by those who like to play victims. If the critic is rather well-rea...

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Human Rights

Equality’s Time Has Come

To understand the vehement opposition to 33 per cent women’s reservation in urban local bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland by male-dominated/all-male Naga tribal bodies, it is...

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Hollywood

Angelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based On Facts, Not Fear

Refugees are men, women and children caught in the fury of war, or the cross hairs of persecution. Far from being terrorists, they are often the victims of terrorism themse...

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Health

Targeting Old Scourges

The reference in the Union Budget to new elimination targets for some major communicable diseases barely hints at the enormous burden carried by millions in India with tube...

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