Delhi Hospitals Make 1737% Profit on Drugs, Consumables: Regulatory Body
Delhi's private hospitals overcharge patients by obscene amounts, to inflate profit margins. A government report takes them to task
CNN News18 / February 2018 / Reporting
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Delhi's private hospitals overcharge patients by obscene amounts, to inflate profit margins. A government report takes them to task
CNN News18 / February 2018 / Reporting
Every polluted winter, AQI, PM2.5, etc., become household terms. What do they actually mean and how can they change the way we tackle air pollution?
CNN News18 / November 2017 / Features
If the viral phenomenon could only be blamed for a handful of the 100 adolescent suicides a week in India, where does the real problem lie
CNN News18 / September 2017 / Reporting
How four men were hoodwinked into entering a sewage tank and their deaths brought manual scavenging back into the spotlight
CNN News18 / July 2017 / Reporting
When Sulabh Shauchalaya, the NGO setting up public loos in India, decided to dedicate a Haryana village to Donald Trump
CNN News18 / June 2017 / Reporting
A report on the political promises and practical realities of cleaning up Delhi's trash
CNN News18 / April 2017 / Reporting
Coronary stents are a public health necessity and a way for the current government to score electoral brownie point. A look at what led to the massive price cut.
CNN News18 / April 2017 / Reporting
Multiple needs, multiple issues, multiple points of authority. What makes Delhi's municipal polls so complex and so important for the urban poor?
CNN News18 / April 2017 / Reporting
India's ambitious target to eliminate tuberculosis five years before the rest of the world runs into scepticism within and outside of the government
CNN News18 / March 2017 / Reporting
Long-ish report on Dalit and Adivasi villagers in Bundelkhand, in the run up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. How a mix of poverty and caste equations leaves a vast majority without access to employment, ration, pension, health.
CNN News18 / February 2017
Uttar Pradesh elections 2017: First-time voters in a tiny UP town talk about lack of jobs, their aspirations & of politics with no hope of change
CNN News18 / February 2017
Uttar Pradesh elections 2017: At the One Billion Rising celebrations in Lalitpur, adivasi women are furious at the lack of basic rights and amenities
CNN News18 / February 2017
Takeaway from the Union Budget 2017
CNN News18 / February 2017 / Reporting
How stock outs of medicines and testing kits are undoing the fight against AIDS and HIV
CNN News18 / December 2016 / Reporting
How bad blood between the Delhi's Chief Minister and Lieutenant Governor botched up any plans to counter air pollution
CNN News18 / October 2016 / Reporting
The government reacts in the aftermath of the damning Global Tuberculosis Report
CNN News18 / October 2016 / Reporting
The science behind what makes creating a dengue vaccine so tricky
DNA / August 2016 / Reporting
MDR TB, schizophrenia, HIV patients give testimonies about discrimination faced by them
DNA / August 2016 / Reporting
Meeting the Dalit leader behind Chalo Una protests in Delhi
DNA / August 2016 / Reporting
Talking to residents of Pathankot, Punjab, days after a militant attack on the air force base.
DNA / January 2016 / Reporting
When the air force took the press around the remains of the bloody fight
DNA / January 2016 / Reporting
After a Pathankot attack, a look at what guarding the India-Pakistan border in Punjab entails
DNA / January 2016 / Reporting
Profiling the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University targeted by authorities for 'sedition'
DNA / February 2016 / Reporting
How exactly is air pollution measured
DNA / December 2015
Parliamentarians get defensive or admit to a weakness for diesel cars despite Delhi's rising pollution levels.
DNA / December 2015 / Features
In the past decade, newborns have started developing antibiotic resistance, leaving them vulnerable to life threatening infections
DNA / November 2015 / Reporting
Meeting the 14 year old girl in a village outside Agra, who was to be buried alive after being brought up as a living goddess
DNA / October 2015 / Reporting
How far and to how many places did the family that committed suicide on losing their son to dengue, run for help
DNA / September 2015 / Reporting
How a jhuggi jhopri's residents received the city's first mohalla clinic
DNA / August 2015 / Reporting
Looking at the desperate need to strengthen Delhi's crumbling primary health care system.
DNA / August 2015 / Reporting
One adivasi woman's story of being jailed on false charges encapsulates the ongoing war on Chattisgarh's adivasis
DNA / August 2015 / Reporting
Scoop on the cost of putting together the International Yoga Day
DNA / July 2015 / Reporting
Insufferable hours and violent attendants; why Delhi's government doctors went on strike
DNA / June 2015 / Reporting
Aftermath of the communal violence in Haryana's Ballabgarh town
DNA / June 2015 / Reporting
How commercial news industry in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh morally policed young women to raise TRPs
Tehelka / July 2013 / Reporting
Cover story on grassroot resistance among Dalit women in Haryana, against caste atrocities and sexual assault
Tehelka / August 2013 / Reporting
Long form on marital rape in India
Tehelka / November 2013 / Reporting
Scoop: Leaders offered to quit AAP entirely if Kejriwal accepted their demands.
DNA / March 2015
The difference between the man who became the Delhi Chief Minister in 2013 and in 2015
DNA / February 2015 / Reporting
Talking to a very angry young man sworn to bring down the Aam Aadmi Party
DNA / February 2015 / Reporting
How a stunned village reacted to a crime committed by its men.
DNA / February 2015 / Reporting
How it took three post mortems for a crime to be confirmed as rape in Haryana
Tehelka / August 2013 / Reporting
90 Dalit families from Bhagana, Haryana, camped out in Delhi for justice after four teenage girls were raped by Jat men
The Hindu Magazine / May 2014 / Reporting
Documentary Katiyabaaz explores the nature of power in Kanpur through a daily tussle over electricity
Tehelka / November 2013 / Features
The Lunchbox's mad dash to the Oscars
Tehelka / September 2013 / Features
How crowd-funding gave Indian cinema indies to be proud of
Tehelka / July 2013 / Features
Talking cinema with film-maker Anand Gandhi as Ship of Theseus hit screens
Tehelka / July 2013 / Features
Profile of artist Veer Munshi, his show Shrapnel, and being a Kashmiri Pandit in exile
Tehelka / May 2012 / Features
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