healthcare
Foul air: Thermal power more to blame than crackers

The Thermal Power Plant rules could become an arena of progressive policy-making where the courts and government work together to tackle pollution.

Therapy for India’s distressed farmers

For many farmers, sharing and ventilating their toxic and morbid thoughts was cathartic.

More CO2 In The Atmosphere Produces Food Crops Shorn Of Essential Nutrients

“The consumption of millets is lower down on the agenda of policy makers as well as the community... need campaigns to popularise millets again."

A Gandhian in Nagaland

The story of an extraordinary woman from an Ao Naga village who embraced Gandhian thought in the charged 1950s

How a Clown in Delhi Is Helping Ailing Kids Cope With Tough Times

The clowns enter singing and dancing as they use balloons to ease the atmosphere of stress that the patients and caregivers are undergoing.

Grandmother of the jungle: This Kerala tribal woman can prepare 500 medicines from memory

Hundreds trek to the forests in Thiruvananthapuram district to get treated by Lakshmikutty who offers herbal treatment for poisoning

Why Odisha’s Tribal Women Are Returning to Their Natural Roots for Guidance on Food

These women are going back to their native wisdom to, at least, secure the health of their coming generations.

In Search of Women’s Health

A gynaecological survey under a health programme shows the devastating situation of women of an Indore slum and how it has been considerably improved