Continue readingWhose son you are
Whose you’re not
Daughter not by any
Coupling double Xs
The neighbourhood, The house
the hand that rocked the cradle
the hand that didn’t
love that wasn’t
The unfair social embellish
Over one’s random gene bounty
For one brings luck
For another just muck
Continue readingಚೀನಾದಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲ ದೇಶಕೂ
ಬಂದೇ ಬಿಡ್ತು ಕೊರೊನ ಮಾರಿ
ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾಯಾ ನಾಳೆ ನಾವೂ ಮಾಯಾ
ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾಯಾ ನಾಳೆ ನೀವೂ ಮಾಯಾ
BASAVARAJU, A SOLIGA/ADIVASI POET & THEATRE ARTIST FROM YERAKANA GADDE, BR HILLS
Over the past several years, watching raging social media debates and the shaping of merit in public discourse in India spurred this editorial on merit in public health/policy that appeared in BMJ Global Health as an editorial on August 6, 2021. Many thanks to Seye Abimbola, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief for his comments. As noted in the acknowledgements, a lot of internal reflection and churning from various life events, many of them not necessarily pleasant have shaped this editorial.
Continue readingStruggle for patient rights in India is/has largely been led by patient groups and social movements. In addition to the wider power gap between patients and providers, the Indian patient rights situation is aggravated by existing social inequalities including caste, gender, socio-economic position, disability and several other axes of inequities. One of my PhD students is examining patient rights from a governance lens. In this paper that we published a synthesis of literature including Supreme Court judgements in the journal Health Policy & Planning.
Continue readingThanks to GSK & ASM for sharing this with me.