Author: daktre
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Birds of BR Hills
If you came for the checklist of birds of BR Hills, directly scroll to end of this post. My journey with the Biligirirangaswamy temple hills (BR Hills) is an old one. It was during my medical school days, nearly 15 years back that I first went to the hills on a then trendy Yamaha RX 100…
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Building health policy and systems research capacity in India: the KEYSTONE approach
The last few decades have seen a proliferation of research in the domain of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Major technological advances in medicine and various healthcare innovations have little chances of succeeding if robust country, provincial and local health systems are lacking.
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Hinduism by Kshiti Mohan Sen
With a foreword by his better known grandson, Amartya Sen, I picked up this Penguin paperback 2002 reprint of Kshiti Mohan Sen’s 1961 book last year at a Kochi bookshop. With only 138 pages for a very grand title “Hinduism”, the book seems overambitious from its cover itself. Yet, I found it to be a fairly comprehensive account…
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Health managers and organisational change in Indian districts
As Indian districts are increasingly finding themselves at the receiving end of new monies flowing in under the National Health Mission, something that everybody were increasingly pushing for, we find ourselves in a strange predicament, the sheer lack of capacity to spend these new resources. As more and more resources become available, our public health services…
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Table mountain
It was a wonderful and sunny October morning after an overwhelmingly busy week-long discussions over complexity of health systems and researchers’ collective aspiration for a people-centred health system held at a venue largely unrepresentative of the rest of South Africa, when a small group of us decided to trek up the Table Mountain (Tafelburg in…