Columns|Reportage Where do villages figure in India’s oxygen strategy? The virus is moving into villages where 70% of Indians live. Does rural India have a contingency plan?
Columns Rising concern: Rural India faces the double burden of undernutrition and obesity Rising obesity among rural inhabitants is playing out alongside the alarming story of under-nutrition in the country. The National Family...
Columns Rural India: Rising anaemia points to the wider problem of long-term deterioration of India’s human capital It is not that the NFHS-5 is all doom and gloom. But the nutrition and anaemia indicators are a wake-up...
Columns Rural India has just one question about the COVID-19 vaccine — “Will it be free for us?” Rural India deals with harsh realities such as starvation and lack of access to healthcare. They have to be factored...
Columns COVID-19 is a ‘known unknown’ in rural India The virus is spreading in rural areas but we don’t know to what extent because there is no disaggregated data...
Columns In the COVID-19 pandemic, hidden morbidities in rural pockets may morph into another health catastrophe Overburdened with corona services, the Health and Wellness Centres in rural areas are unable to screen people for non-communicable diseases....
Columns Hyper-local narratives are key to understanding the pandemic story in rural India Despite sincere efforts to insulate them through check posts and quarantines, villages in India are not virus-proof. Migrant workers are...
Columns Too early to say the tribal population of India, our most vulnerable, ducked COVID-19? As India’s COVID-19 tally crosses the million mark, it may be tempting to conclude that tribal communities have ducked the...
Columns Tracking the aftermath of a disaster is the real story which many are not interested in Two cyclones hit the country recently. The fury of the cyclones is an old story. But the story of the...
Columns Recently, ASHA workers have faced violence. What makes them so vulnerable? In the coming days, as more and more migrants are going to head back to their villages, the workload of...
