Why is it still so hard to talk about mental illness, even when we say we care about mental health? In this conversation, Dr. Alok Sarin, consultant psychiatrist at the Sitaram Bharatia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, helps unpack the stigma and silence that still surround mental illness in India. Dr. Sarin was […]

India today faces a paradox that borders on the absurd. In one household, a child might be stunted from years of undernutrition. In another, a teenager is quietly slipping into pre-diabetes. Thirty-five percent of Indian children under five are too short for their age, their growth limited by diets that lack essential nutrients, as recorded […]

The World Health Organization has released its first global guideline for managing sickle cell disease (SCD) during pregnancy, a major step forward for millions of women at high risk of maternal death and complications. Watch to learn what this means for global health and why it matters now more than ever.

May 26, 2025, was not an ordinary day for Mumbai. The city witnessed its earliest monsoon in 75 years and the heaviest single day rainfall of 107 years – 300mm rain in just 24 hours, nearly 15% of its annual average. Streets turned into rivers, local trains halted, schools and offices closed, and hospitals overflowed. […]

“Beta, finish your rice or the Waste Monster will come for you!” That was my grandfather’s favourite warning when I was a child growing up in 1990s Patna. His stories were vivid and slightly terrifying. Clouds that talked, rivers that laughed, mountains of trash that swallowed towns. At the time, I thought of them as […]

डब्ल्यूएचओ ने 9 जून 2025 को घोषणा की कि एमपॉक्स महामारी अभी भी अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य आपातकाल है। 2024 की शुरुआत में कांगो में शुरू हुआ यह प्रकोप अब तक 25 देशों में फैल चुका है, जिससे 37,000 से अधिक मामले और 125 मौतें दर्ज की गई हैं। कांगो, युगांडा और सिएरा लियोन जैसे देशों में […]