Tejah Balantrapu is Associate Director – Science, Health Data, and Storytelling at the L V Prasad Eye Institute and co-leads “SciCity Hyderabad”, an initiative to bring science into the cultural conversations of the city.
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed India’s growing diabetes crisis and its deadly link to mucormycosis. This preventable event reflected deeper issues—poor urban design, unhealthy diets, and inadequate…