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Why the selective amplification?
Indian media pounce on stories of crime against women that sell, then almost invariably do a shoddy job of reporting them Does the media contribute directly, or indirectly, to distorting our understanding of the reasons for the increasing violence against women? I ask this question against the background of the horrific rape and murder of […]
Ayushman vs Arogya
AAP says Delhi’s healthcare scheme is better than Ayushman Bharat. But the Centre claims Delhi’s programme doesn’t cover ‘catastrophic expenditure’ of the poor on secondary and tertiary healthcare On the afternoon of November 15, 2018, Emmanuel James, a resident of Delhi, received a phone call from his wife. She told him their daughter, Anna, had […]
An ode to love and alienation
Ek betuke aadmi ki afrah raatein attempts to locate communal riots in a wider historical legacy of the nation state, while investigating individual stories of caste and subjugation through gender Fyodor Dostoevsky is on a slow and laborious walk in Muzaffarnagar and Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He notices another gentleman, Munshi Premchand, savouring the lives and […]
No school, no Internet
The education sector has taken a major hit in ‘Naya Kashmir’, and students are worried about their futures The idea of bunking classes once in a while, or not attending school to have a lazy, carefree day or two, is fun for students in a “normal” society. But in Kashmir, things aren’t normal. It’s been […]
Mind your language!
Their Lordships have suddenly discovered that 383 Urdu and Persian words used in police reports are incomprehensible to the public — even to persons filing the report Hindi movie buffs who like crime dramas may well be aware of words like Saboot (evidence), Anjam (result), Jama Talashi (personal search), Hirasat (custody), Gair Kanooni (illegal), Mujrim […]
Toxic truth?
RO companies are members of the organisation that declared Delhi’s water toxic. In an apparent conflict of interest, some of these companies are fighting an NGT order that prohibits the use of water purifiers in certain situations The Bureau of Indian Standards is currently under the radar for an ambiguous tapwater study that rated Delhi […]
When knees give way due to genetic disorder
A 69-year-old patient with multiple benign bone tumours, called osteochondromas, has been successfully treated by a team of surgeons in fortis, Shalimar Bagh Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, successfully treated a 69-year-old patient suffering from a rare knee condition, ‘hereditary multiple exostosis’. A condition in which multiple benign bone tumours called osteochondromas develop at […]
Let your skin breathe…
…especially in this polluted environment, says Dr Rashmi Sharma, consultant dermatologist at Fortis, Vasant Kunj Over 6.5 million deaths globally every year are attributed to air pollution. That comes to an astonishing figure of 18,000 deaths a day! This figure is comparable to the deaths occurring on account of major illnesses. There are several air […]