Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar On Raksha Bandhan, threads of silk and cotton are tied across millions of households in Uttar Pradesh to signify care, responsibility, and mutual protection. Beyond these traditional rituals, the occasion provides an important moment to examine what…
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar India cannot claim first-world economic productivity while its citizens remain exposed to third-world, catastrophic medical bills. Healthcare shocks routinely force households to sell assets, take on debt and cut essential spending, trapping families in a cycle of…
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar Goa’s Health Assurance Question India’s health protection landscape has gradually moved from fragmented, state-specific insurance arrangements towards broader public assurance systems. Within this shift, Goa offers a distinctive model. The Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY) is…
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar As India maps its strategic trajectory towards the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, the national discourse has increasingly shifted beyond economic growth to the broader foundations of human capital. For the country to emerge as a global…
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar For decades, a central criticism of India’s healthcare system was that while a medical diagnosis itself did not necessarily push families into bankruptcy, the subsequent cost of medicines often did. In a public health matrix where out-of-pocket…
For decades, India's public health system relied largely on demand-side interventions such as expanding insurance coverage and beneficiary support.