The Waiting Room Is Empty: India’s Mental Health Care Gap
India has 0.75 psychiatrists per 100,000 people against a WHO minimum of 3. Tele-MANAS proves the demand exists, DMHP spends less than half its budget, and most insurance policies still don’t cover mental illness despite a 2017 law that says they must.
72.6% of Indian Prisoners Have Not Been Convicted of Anything
India held about 3.71 lakh undertrial prisoners out of a prison population of roughly 5.11 lakh. More than 9,000 had been inside for over five…
5.39 Crore Pending Cases: The Arithmetic of a Justice System at Capacity
India’s courts carried 5.39 crore pending cases at the end of 2025, with more than 1.8 lakh of them pending over thirty years. The backlog…
39% Paid a Bribe: What India’s Corruption Numbers Say About Ordinary Life
India’s global corruption ranking measures what experts think. The survey that asked citizens what actually happened to them found a bribery rate of 39 per…