Index

A Report on Indian medicine

1. STATUS OF INDIAN MEDICINE AND FOLK HEALING

Book Reviews

1. Book Review – Female Foeticide – Myth and Reality
2. Book Review – The Honest Always Stand Alone
3. Book Review – THE ACROBATICS OF CHANGE
4. Book Review – Missing Girls
5. Book Review-Squatting with Dignity – Lessons from India

Bureaucracy, Governance and Sarkar

1. People Come First
2. The honest are harassed- the guilty go scot-free
3. High on social capital
4. More loyal than the king
5. Whistling away your life
6. Needed, culture of ethics
7. Make babus accountable
8. An old man on bail
9. Disciplining Government Employees LABYRINTHINE NIGHTMARE
10. Fighting corruption
11. The elite’s naïveté
12. Charge of the nurse’s brigade
13. Willfully defying the law of the land
14. Matter of life and death
15. A CM who performs
16. Babus get new bosses
17. The Helicopter Ride
18. Bureaucratic Siberia
19. My face is my passport
20. Physicians, heal thyselves
21. The city as patient
22. The donkey’s SADDLE Or, a symbol of the feudal mindset of the Indian bureaucracy
23. A dangerous admission
24. Governance Grumbles–act
25. Sloth, corruption dog civil services
26. Probing the Games mess
27. IAS: Bring the corrupt to justice
28. Power to the People: Indicators for Accountability
29. Bureaucracy and Society: Challenges of Participatory Democracy in Delhi
30. Census and sensibility
31. The Failure of Institutional Integrity
32. Mandatory CSR and Social Audit
33. A better bureaucrat
34. Citizens’ right to public space
35. IAS interviewees – better off unbeautiful
36. Refuse to succumb to pressure
37. RTI isn’t broken, why fix it?
38. Minister’s Rotten Pupil
39. City police should report to CM
40. Hammering RTI
41. Wake up before it’s too late
42. Measuring the Poor from Above.
43. Demanding transparency in political finance.
44. Not just about Durga.
45. No clean slate
46. Behind AAP’s hopeless agenda could be next poll plank
47. The Last Word: How different will an AAP government prove to be?
48. Day of the sleuth
49. Indian elections and the fruits of democracy
50. Branding the babu
51. Civil Service Aptitude Test: It’s not unfair to Hindi-medium aspirants
52. Swacch Bharat, opportunity to do things differently
53. Cleaning up sarkar
54. Capital control
55. End this rule by remote control: Statehood is a necessity for Delhi
56. Governance has to be put before vote banks: Shailaja Chandra
57. To the CM-in-waiting
58. Two many heads
59. Who really governs Delhi?
60. Delhi governance: A case of too many horses?

Corruption

1. Sloth, corruption dog civil services
2. Probing the Games mess
3. IAS: Bring the corrupt to justice
4. The Failure of Institutional Integrity
5. Striking at the root of corruption
6. Bringing Probity into Public Life
7. Demanding transparency in political finance
8. Reform act of 2014
9. Day of the sleuth

Demography, Fertility, Family planning, Population

1. Population Stabilisation – Issues and Concerns
2. Women as brood mares
3. Sugar-coated lie
4. No merit in early marriage
5. Evil called child marriage
6. Don’t curb sexual knowledge
7. Family planning is good
8. Married to lifelong misery
   
9. Six questions for six CMs
10. Assault on innocence
11. Too young to be mother
12. Take care of the basics first
13. Marvel or myth?
14. The burden of youth
15. Managing change in India
16. Power to the People: Indicators for Accountability
17. Census and sensibility
18. India’s Health-Issues and Challenges
19. India’s high fertility: The myths and the reality
20. Health policy rethink

Gender PPT

1. Gender Empowerment in India – Challenges and Opportunities.

Gender/Women’s Rights

1. Going against the grain
2. We the women of India
3. Plan the Indian family
4. Holding India back
5. Women at work
6. Womenomics revolution
7. Dhoom-dham of shaadis
8. Gender Divide , The gap widens
9. Women as brood mares
10. Innovation, information and institutional change, next challenges for gender equality
11. Towards protecting women
12. Images of exclusion?
13. Managing change in India
14. International Women’s Day: a message for career women
15. Desh Deshantar – Child marriage: social implications and health issues of women
16. India’s Data of Discrimination
17. Birds of a feather sit together
18. Health policy rethink

Incidents that opened my eyes

1. WHAT PRICE HONESTY?
2. Truth about cats and dogs
3. WATCHING THE WATCHDOGS
4. FULL OF GRACE
5. YOGA, KNITTING AND A GRANDMOTHER’S LOVE
6. THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH
7. NO MOR(E)
8. STOP! I’M THE BOSS!
9. FLYING WITH THE MAHARAJA?
10. A TOUCH OF VENETIAN CLASS
11. GASTRONOMIC SENSE
12. TIME VEGETARIANS DEMAND EQUALITY!
13. LODI GARDENS – THEN AND NOW
14. THE STONE AND STRING EXPEDITION
15. CASUAL LEAVE AND HOLY HOLIDAYS
16. LEARNING FROM THE BAHAIS
17. THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND
18. What Tara Hall taught me
19. Gearing up for the Games
20. Flaunting Flamboyance
21. My Mother is 101.
22. Charge of the nurse’s brigade
23. The Helicopter Ride
24. Bureaucratic Siberia
25. The donkey’s SADDLE Or, a symbol of the feudal mindset of the Indian bureaucracy
26. Images of exclusion?
27. A dangerous admission
28. Governance Grumbles–act
29. Sloth, corruption dog civil services
30. Bengaluru vs Delhi: The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side

khundaks and spats

1. ARE YOU WORTH KNOWING?
2. ELECTION TIME IN DELHI CLUBS
3. Flaunting Flamboyance
4. Uninformed harassment
5. Technology can be the cure
6. Punctiliously courteous
7. Promises are not enough
8. How not to ban polythene bags
9. Missing the wood
10. Senselessly going green
11. Dhoom-dham of shaadis
12. Truth about cats and dogs
13. Willfully defying the law of the land

Medical practice & Malpractice

1. Needed, helping hands
2. Is this the tipping point?
3. Abolish MCI, councils
4. Make me a takeaway baby
5. Coping with death
6. Gurgaon no exception
7. Physicians, heal thyselves
8. The city as patient

News reports

1. GIS helps map India’s health facilities
2. Delhi Public Library rewinds on 60th anniversary
3. Post DU, Ayush moots longer course

When the older get bolder

1. The Older They Get, the Bolder They Get 1: D R Mehta
2. The Older They Get, the Bolder They Get 2: S S Jog
3. The Older They Get, the Bolder They Get 3: When the saints go marching in
4. The Older They Get, the Bolder They Get 4: Rathikant Basu: Utterly unusual
5. The Older They Get, the Bolder They Get 5: Sunil Patnaik: IAS officer who became a monk!

Podcast

1. Hammering RTI
2. How times have changed my friend
3. When trinkets become jewellery
4. Lodhi Gardens -Then and now

TV Show

1. The Big Picture – Budgeting flagship programs
2. The Big Picture – Lifestyle Diseases: A ticking time bomb?
3. Ram Singh’s death: Is this a failure of our jail system?
4. Desh Deshantar – Child marriage: social implications and health issues of women
5. The Last Word : How significant is the SC’s order on red beacon lights?
6. FTN: Do politicians invariably make insensitive statements in public?
7. Face the Nation – FTN: Ashok Khemka transferred again: Are repeated transfers of officers destroying the civil services?
8. Desh Deshantar – Marriage Laws (Amdn) Bill: Differences Within
9. Desh Deshantar – National Urban Health Mission: scope & challenges
10. Do we remember our soldiers only in times of crisis?
11. The Last Word: What does the nationwide mid day meal disaster reveal about India?
12. The Big Picture – No common medical entrance test: Implications of the SC order
13. The Big Picture – AADHAAR imbroglio: How will it affect the Govt. schemes?
14. FTP: Agenda for Change: Is CBI Director product of a patriarchal mindset? – IBN
15. Desh Deshantar – Bharatiya Mahila Bank: Another initiative towards women empowerment?
16. Desh Deshantar – Apprehensions concerning law providing protection against sexual harassment
17. Life in a metro: What are the main issues that concern the urban voters?

Wiki

1. Wellbeing of Older People in India

Uncategorized

1. 2010 in review
2. Panel Discussion at India International Centre on “Status of Indian Medicine & Folk Healing” on 19th March 2012
3. Loreto Convent Tara Hall Revisited