India’s Maternal Mortality Rate on a Downward Trend

According to the Sample Registration System bulletin, which was released last Wednesday, the maternal mortality...

Brookings India Attempts to Decode NFHS-4

The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representa...

This Mother’s Day Help the Moms in Crisis

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. You would probably know about it, thanks to the zillion social media posts that w...

Bill Gates on Improving Global Health

Bill Gates has spent much of the past decade trying to improve healthcare around the world through the Bill &am...

Gene-Editing for a Healthier and Enhanced Future

Over the years we have significantly reduced deadly diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. The i...

AGNIPARIKSHA: An Ordeal Remembered

Orient Blackswan released the English translation of eminent lawyer and Gandhian Read More

One Person in the World develops Dementia every 3 Seconds...

Someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds. There were an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015 a...

Gender Inequality: Pressure is on the Men Too

"There are far more incentives for women to act masculine than there are for men to act feminine."

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Women act as Change Agents to Improve their Well-being

Almost a third of Nepal's population lives on less than a dollar a day, and political turmoil has displaced ten...