In this episode host Kiran Kumbhar discusses metrics, statistics, and numbers in public health and demography with Aashish Gupta who is a sociologist, demographer, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow…
Public health researcher Indira Chakravarthi speaks with host Kiran Kumbhar on the private healthcare sector, public-private partnerships, Ayushman Bharat, and the right to health.
Rajasthan’s Right to Health Act shows transformative potential by guaranteeing access to health for all. Despite protests by some doctors, implementation of a rights-based framework would lead to…
A survey of pricing practices in private hospitals in Maharashtra during Covid-19 brings out the extent of price gouging that took place in spite of government attempts at regulation.
In this final episode of Suno India's 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar speaks to historians Projit Bihari Mukharji, David Arnold, Ranjana Saha, and Nandini Bhattacharya about one…
Tracing the evolution of the modern pharmaceutical industry, Truth Pill takes a critical look at the drug regulatory process in India and outlines what needs to be done to make the country a world…
The sugar-coated termination of the free grain Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana calls for an urgent expansion of alternative social security measures.
Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to Dr Rajib Dasgupta about the scientific mechanism of oral rehydration therapy and why it works to save lives during acute diarrhoea. Dr Rajib describes the twists and…
The second episode of 'Becoming Modern: Healthcare and History in India' is about one of the central challenges of writing any kind of history: how to find and incorporate the voices of the…
In this introductory episode of 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar talks with Suno India co-founder Padma Priya about the importance of knowing the history of medicine and healthcare,…
