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If the healthcare infrastructure in India is not revived in the near future then it is bound to crumble and when that happens – it will severely affect the economy and the people.

This is a long version of the answers that Clemente Bautista (President of Kalikasan: People’s Network for the Environment) gave us for the Lead Article A Zero-Sum Game? which deals with the following question: Rapid globalization makes competition for land, raw materials and other resources intense. When the stakes are so high, can […]

The democracy is at the ‘crossroads’ and it is time for the ‘silent majority’ to speak up.

“I was just twelve years when I came from Uttar Pradesh (a northern state of India) as a migrant worker with the help of a relative,” says Ram Charan Yadav my neighbourhood vegetable vendor. He sits outside my apartment complex and claims to have been selling vegetables here for the […]