Shah Alam Khan
The writer is Professor of Orthopedics, AIIMS, New Delhi. The views expressed are personal.
Sat, Apr 09, 2022
The dystopic play makes a case for empathy while highlighting the politics of identity that is skewered against minorities
Fri, Apr 01, 2022
Shah Alam Khan writes: People who drove her to suicide have to be punished. But a society that refuses to condemn daily acts of coercion, injustice and violence is equally culpable for the crime.
Sat, Feb 26, 2022
Shah Alam Khan writes: He worked towards building a world where everyone has a doctor.
Sat, Feb 12, 2022
Shah Alam Khan writes: There appears to be a political determination to induce a collective amnesia about death and devastation, particularly following the brutal second wave of Covid-19.
Sat, Nov 13, 2021
Shah Alam Khan writes: In the absence of an organised food security net and political commitment, India is being crippled by the challenge of pervasive hunger and malnourishment
Fri, Oct 01, 2021
Shah Alam Khan writes: To cleanse a society of the kind of violence and hatred seen in the Assam video, we need truth and confession from the highest levels of leadership.
Tue, Aug 31, 2021
Shah Alam Khan writes: The memories should serve as handbook on how not to divide the nation communally
Tue, Jun 01, 2021
If the pandemic has revealed the ugliness of death to us, it has also revealed the human capacity for love and empathy.
Sat, May 08, 2021
Use of the existing government supply lines, for example, the 5,05,879 fair price shops (part of Public Distribution System), can be one solution. These are distributed through the length and breadth of the country. The use of LPG cylinder distributors can also be explored.
Sat, Apr 17, 2021
One year into the pandemic, we are still ill-prepared as far as health infrastructure is concerned.
Sun, Mar 07, 2021
A probing exploration of life in Kashmir, caught in an endless spiral of violence and extreme nationalism
Fri, Dec 04, 2020
Other than adverse effects, many questions have remained unanswered. How effective will these vaccines be in breaking the transmission of the disease? Historically, in many diseases, vaccination models have failed to break disease transmission.
Sun, Oct 25, 2020
In this collection of nine essays, writer Arundhati Roy theorises justice in a broken world
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Countries more successful in curbing COVID-19 are welfare states, ruled by left-of-centre parties. There is a lesson here.
Sat, Aug 15, 2020
It is up to us: Do we want to go back to the “normal” which we thought was normal or use this opportunity to understand the real meaning of freedom and create a new normal that is founded on the principle of equality.
Sat, Jun 27, 2020
Even though COVID-19 continues to rule and ruin our daily worlds, it still does not give the right to the righteous of the land to promote cures, remedies and preventions which are beyond the realm of their understanding and operation. Prudence is the need of the hour and prudence comes from wisdom.
Tue, May 26, 2020
If we want to come out of the ruins of this pandemic and from the consequences of the lockdown, we have to remove fear and stigma from this awful disease. We have to let our minds be governed by science, and not fakery.
Thu, Apr 30, 2020
Physical distancing is imperative to check the spread of the virus. But the lockdown could have been implemented with more compassion. People’s health is the responsibility of the state.
Fri, Mar 13, 2020
It is imperative to take action against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But to believe that we are facing an apocalypse and react accordingly is sheer madness.
Wed, Jan 08, 2020
What is urgently required is not the involvement of private players but a sincere engagement by the state in matters concerning peoples’ health. Reports have shown that most of the babies in Kota died due to suffocation at birth; low birth-weight and infections were the other significant causes of death.
Sat, Dec 21, 2019
Police murders like the one in Hyderabad are not events to celebrate but occasions to introspect. The total lack of faith of the common people in the judicial system is something which should worry us all. Similarly, total impunity in passing an unconstitutional law should also be an occasion to introspect.
Sat, Nov 16, 2019
We should respect the judgment of the Supreme Court without trying to fit it into the landscape of justice and fairness as explained by Rawls. It is a closure of something perniciously erosive to the idea of India, the idea to which we all owe our allegiance.
Sat, Oct 26, 2019
With a virtually unregulated private health system, an increase in notification of TB patients could be heartening for the government. But for the public health system, it is bad news.
Fri, Aug 23, 2019
The NMC Act, in the garb of change, has some provisions which are far more problematic than those in the amended MCI Act. The constitution of the medical commission as proposed in the Act has issues of subjugating federalism at multiple levels.
Mon, Jun 17, 2019
Violence incubates in our society. Insensitivity to it makes the doctor vulnerable.