नर्सेज़ का वेतन अलग-अलग जगह पर अलग होता है। प्राइवेट हॉस्पिटल मे नर्सेज़ का वेतन...
How Do We Learn And Design For Others’ Learning
A facilitator in college in one of my earliest classes in my first year asked...
A Resurgence Of Community Libraries In India
India has had a long culture of libraries that served not only as a treasure...
Women Embracing Digital Technology: Challenges & Opportunities
I spent approximately six months in Maheshwar, living cashless and relying...
Families Migrating From Kushalgarh In Distress
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying, the only thing more...
How Climate Change Affects Migrant Workers
While traveling in and out of towns or cities, I have often observed a...
Intersectionality: Understanding Layers of Oppression
Intersectionality serves as a framework to understand social relations. By...
Machiavellian Leaders In Modern Times
Scholars and practitioners have widely explored and utilized the leadership...
Financial Literacy – Necessity Of The Hour
Trigger Warning: Suicide, Death, Distress Ramesh Lal*, his wife and their four children were found dead at their home in the Udaipur district on 21st November , 2022. He was the only earning member in this six-person household. He had earlier migrated to work at a...
A Library That Nurtures Choice And Freedom
I bleakly recall the image of me as a child looking with awe at the encyclopaedia and a lot of giant picture books kept high up on the shelf of our school library. We used to have a library period when we would go through the shelves and pick up a book with our own...
A How-To Guide If You Are Beginning To Understand Mental Health
While growing up, I had many close friends through school and college who have gone through anxiety and depression. Being with them through it all, I assumed I understood what it meant to go through a problematic mental health issue. I assumed that I know how to...
Let’s Talk About Sh*t (Part 2 of 2)
It was a cold, foggy Wednesday morning. I was with Jaysingh*, one of our field staff at Swasthya Swaraj. We were on our way to visit the schools and to collect growth monitoring data of under-five children in one cluster in Kerpai panchayat. After...
Maslow, Choices, Learning And A Library Somewhere In The Hinterland
A handful of shared sand represents the handful of choices we have and how they are sometimes made for us or passed down to us. Every time I think about choices, I frequently wonder what they actually mean and signify? My thoughts go back to all the times I’ve had to...
How Do You Spend Rs. 200 In Your Day-To-Day Life?
What comes to your mind when you see a 200 rupee note? How do you spend it? Is it a big spend or it just goes away in everyday expense? Does it differ between men and women? I asked the same question to a set of people and here's what they had to say about it. As a...
How did the people do their ‘business’ then? (Part 1 of 2)
“What is the most satisfactory and peaceful time in a human’s life?” was the topic of discussion in the courts of King Krishnadevaraya. All of the ministers were giving instances of life and death, while Tenali Raman, a brilliant and witty minister in king’s court was...
Silicosis: The Occupational Hazard Of Doing God’s Work
The Pindwara district in the state of Rajasthan is known for its mining industry. Every year, almost thousands of men from this region, either migrate to cities or are posted at sites within Pindwara for stone grinding activities. The work usually involves building...
What Bothers The Youth In Rural Bihar Everyday?
As part of an initiative to understand mental health concerns affecting the youth in rural Samastipur, my colleague and I had a group discussion with a group of young (18-35 years) men and women. Initially, we did not mention our purpose or used any mental health...
Understanding What Primary Health Care Means
80% of the diseases can be prevented or cured at the primary level only. And that is why corporates cannot provide primary care as providing primary care would affect the profit that they can make through secondary or tertiary careA doctor in an intense discussion...
ई-श्रम क्या हैं?
https://open.spotify.com/show/37Dw12K7Lx5aIZhVdiIqrf?si=gEGh75VpSSezRNFehWyjDw The e-Shram card was brought in by the central government in August 2021 posing as an answer to the enumeration of migrant workers and consolidated social security benefits for all...
Is It Possible To Eliminate Tuberculosis By 2025?
दीदी, इस बिमारी से कोई बचता नहीं है। हमने तो बहुत करीब से देखा है। मुझे डर है की मैं ठीक नहीं होऊंगा। [Didi, nobody survives this disease. I have seen it up close. I'm afraid that I won't get well]. These were the words spoken by Rajan*, as he sat across from me in...
Kambadiya Devipujaks : The Worshippers Of Devi
Most of my time spent in Kutch is with the communities on urban Bhuj, specifically slum areas. I go for regular visits to their places to meet the Kishoris (adolscent girls). As part of my project with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), we work towards the...
Possible Consequences Of Women Not Knowing Their Bodies
I was on a patient visit, to understand why some of our TB diagnosed patients were not consuming their medicines and to further motivate them to eat, take care and routinely consume their medicines. On one such visit we came across a home besides a corn field where a...