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Health
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.
Health
NFHS-6 shows child stunting fell to 29.3%, down from 35.5%. But nutrition-specific schemes only fix a third of the problem. The other two-thirds runs through sanitation, maternal anaemia, and dietary diversity, where India's own data shows the real gaps remain.
Poverty
India's elderly population will more than double by 2050. A journalistic look at pension coverage that reaches one in five, families scattered by migration, and the care infrastructure that doesn't exist yet.
Governance
A strong disability rights law meets a built environment that ignores it. On the RPWD Act's promises versus the ramps, buses, jobs, and classrooms that still don't exist.
Poverty
We count how many Indians crossed the poverty line. We do not count how many crossed back. Four shocks undo a decade of climbing, and every one of them is a risk a functioning system would have pooled.
India vs World
In 1948, Costa Rica did something no country had done before: it abolished its military and redirected defence spending to schools and hospitals. Seventy-six years later, it ranks as the happiest nation in the Americas, with a life expectancy of 81, a literacy rate of 97%, and a $4-billion ecotourism economy. India spends 2.4% of GDP on defence and only 2.1% on health. The math - and the lesson - deserve a hard look.
Health
India's nursing workforce is overwhelmingly Dalit, overwhelmingly female, and almost entirely invisible in public recognition. Savita Hira Bodhi represents the hundreds of thousands of Dalit nurses who staff the hardest posts in India's health system - and who the system has systematically undervalued for generations.
Health
Dr. Binayak Sen spent three decades providing medical care to Adivasi communities in Chhattisgarh. In 2007, he was arrested on sedition charges under UAPA. In 2011, the Supreme Court granted bail amid a global petition signed by 22 Nobel laureates. His case is a window into India's conflict-zone health equity crisis.
Households pay 58% of India's health spending directly, per the article, against 9.5% in Sweden and 13% in Germany. Why public health policy explains the gap.
Poverty
Inside India’s gig economy, 8 million drivers and delivery workers, the Social Security Code that promised protection but has not delivered, the state-level experiments, and what a working safety net would actually look like.
Health
India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is building a national digital health ID system, the ABHA card, that aims to link every citizen's medical records across hospitals, labs, and pharmacies.
Solutions
Across India, a generation of young innovators is using technology, design thinking, and grassroots organizing to solve problems that governments and large organizations have struggled with for decades. Meet the young Indians building social change from the ground up.
Health
Rural India has few specialist doctors. This article looks at Indian healthtech startups using AI diagnostics to give villagers access to specialist-level screening and decision support.
Health
India has about 9,000 psychiatrists for roughly 200 million people with mental health conditions. This article looks at the treatment gap and the stigma that keeps people from seeking help.
Child Welfare
India is home to one-third of the world's stunted children. With 35.5% of children under 5 stunted, 19.3% wasted, and anaemia rising to 67.1%, child malnutrition remains a national emergency. Explore the NFHS-5 data, state-wise disparities, the caste intersection, government interventions like ICDS and POSHAN Abhiyaan, and what India must do to break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
Health
One in seven Indians lives with a mental health condition, yet 70-92 per cent receive no treatment. With just 0.3 psychiatrists per lakh population and crushing stigma, India's mental health crisis demands urgent attention, from school counsellors to workplace policies to national destigmatisation campaigns.
