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To Realize Universal Health Coverage, Surgical NGOs Must Play a Crucial Role
Authors: John L. Dutton, Desmond T. Jumbam and Libby Bunker
The COVID-19 pandemic has eroded and exposed fragile health systems globally.
Health care workers have been...
Indian Farmers, Citizenship and Modi
Subject as it is to the vagaries of weather, farming is an uncertain business, and many countries therefore subsidize farmers in one way or...
Development is Meaningless without the Public Safety: A Bangladesh Perspective
Although the government and the leaders of the ruling political parties are talking about the economic development of the country i.e. GDP growth, infrastructural...
COVID-19 Pandemic Dealt Women A Painful Blow
On January 28, Women Deliver and Focus 2030 released the first-of-its-kind multi-country public opinion survey,carried out in 17 countries spanning six continents, which captures...
MENA Unbound: Ten Years after the Arab Spring, Avoiding Another Lost Decade
Ten years ago, to the day, the Tunisian people revolted against their president. They denounced his regime, his policies, and his corrupt practices and...
Meritocracy in the Age of Mediocrity
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Sophia Thomas*
Meritocracy, political theorist Hannah Arendt famously says, “contradicts the principle of equality. Without equality, it is no less...
For a Resilient Recovery and Long-term Prosperity, Russia Must Invest in All its People
Alexei is a young man living in a suburb of Moscow, where he was born and raised. His estimated life expectancy is between 74-79...
Iranians move into front line of the Middle East’s quest for religious change
A recent online survey by scholars at two Dutch universities of Iranian attitudes towards religion has revealed a stunning rejection of state-imposed adherence to...
Casteism inside RSS, and its’ abhorrence
Dr Ambedkar, the architect of Indian Constitution, believed that ‘RSS is a dangerous association’. The latest to join this belief is Bhanwar Maghwanshi, a...
Outburst of Rage or moral outrage?
“Failure,” so goes the Chinese proverb, “is not falling down but refusing to get up.” Did the Arab Spring really fail? Ten years after...