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Vikram Patel
Patel is the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School and is affiliated with the Public Health Foundation of India and Sangath
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Remember the way to the restaurant? How transformative technology may dumb us down as a speciesSubscriber Only
August 25,2025 06:57:02 AM
The science of brain plasticity is showing that we are losing a range of abilities, not just spatial orientation and navigation, but the ability to remember things and concentrate, interact with others, regulate our emotions and plan for the future.
Mon, Aug 25, 2025
A fund crunch in the US, an opportunity for IndiaSubscriber Only
May 17,2025 07:05:15 AM
This may be a once in a lifetime moment for India to reap a rich harvest in pursuit of the country's ambition to become a world-leader in science
Sat, May 17, 2025
Five years after Covid, it is important to ask difficult questions about how we handled the crisisSubscriber Only
April 10,2025 06:30:01 AM
Truth has been the biggest casualty of the past five years, powered by the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the decline of trust in institutions
Thu, Apr 10, 2025
Delhi’s pollution crisis is not just an India problemSubscriber Only
November 30,2024 02:00:19 AM
Half a billion people living in the shadows of the Himalayas, from the plains of the Punjab in Pakistan through the entire sweep of India’s northern states into Bangladesh, are affected by the toxic smog in the nation’s capital
Sat, Nov 30, 2024
Richard Cash, the man whose invention saved over 80 million livesSubscriber Only
November 04,2024 04:10:39 AM
In 1978, ‘The Lancet’ called Oral Rehydration Therapy the most significant medical advance of the 20th century and, in 1987, UNICEF stated, ‘No other single medical breakthrough of the 20th century has had the potential to prevent so many deaths in such a short time and at such low cost’
Mon, Nov 04, 2024
Inequality, polarising politics and neoliberal policies: Lessons for India from America’s declineSubscriber Only
July 18,2024 15:26:00 PM
It is hard to feel unified when people have differing visions for the country. In my view, the unravelling began when the US embraced privatisation, deregulation, globalisation, leading to the gutting of the manufacturing sector, rendering working classes disposable
Mon, Jul 22, 2024
Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy points to the need for a public health-centred approach to alcoholSubscriber Only
June 26,2024 14:32:59 PM
Governments look at alcohol from a moral point of view. At the same time, it is a source of revenue for them. This contradictory approach hurts the poor
Thu, Jun 27, 2024
Why the young don’t want to have children— and how to fix thatSubscriber Only
April 02,2024 08:15:27 AM
There is growing evidence that they do not want to bring children into a world whose very survival is threatened by climate change, even as the global community fails to take the needed action
Wed, Apr 03, 2024
Tobacco to TikTok: How the corporate playbook hurts usSubscriber Only
January 03,2024 07:07:57 AM
People must demand that the political class holds corporates to account for ills ranging from social media addiction to climate change
Wed, Jan 03, 2024
Vikram Patel on TB among the vulnerable: When food is a vaccine Subscriber Only
August 30,2023 07:30:21 AM
As the landmark RATIONS study demonstrates, nutrition subsidies and addressing social determinants of diseases must become an essential part of healthcare
Wed, Aug 30, 2023
Vikram Patel writes: To keep its youth, India needs a love revolutionSubscriber Only
June 29,2023 07:33:41 AM
A craven and unforgiving interpretation of ‘love jihad’ has planted its poisonous arrow in the soul of the country. The denial of the freedom to love is a driver of suicide and homicide in India, which are now among the leading causes of death in our youth
Thu, Jun 29, 2023
Vikram Patel writes: Social media genie is out of the bottle, and we are all trappedSubscriber Only
May 22,2023 12:16:42 PM
It has fueled spread of hate, desensitised us from its effects. It also represents an existential threat to democracy, for democracy requires dialogue and respect to build consensus and compromise on contentious issues
Tue, May 23, 2023
Baba Ramdev in Goa: Yoga lessons during Carnival timesSubscriber Only
February 25,2023 07:35:39 AM
The yoga guru is far smarter than his detractors believe. The way he has bounced after the fiasco over his Covid-19 concoctions is evidence of his ability to influence people
Sat, Feb 25, 2023
Vikram Patel writes: I wish that our police would spend more energy enforcing traffic rules to stem the carnage on our roadsSubscriber Only
January 02,2023 15:22:49 PM
My wish for 2023: Let’s push for change, shoulder to shoulder
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Vikram Patel writes: Once Upon a Time in Goa with Charles SobhrajSubscriber Only
December 25,2022 16:00:52 PM
Goa where Inspector Zende arrested the infamous criminal in 1986 has lost its innocence to a ghoulish modernity that has transformed the land and its inhabitants
Wed, Dec 28, 2022
Vikram Patel writes: What the Vande Bharat train says about the lopsided priorities of Indian modernitySubscriber Only
November 10,2022 17:39:21 PM
Other countries, in particular those we often look up to, have realised the journey to development very differently. While those countries invest in high-quality primary health care and primary education, we invest in ivory towers of 'super-specialty' hospitals and IITs
Fri, Nov 11, 2022
As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of our Independence, a thought for what we lostSubscriber Only
August 11,2022 21:34:30 PM
Vikram Patel writes: I have no lived memory of Partition. But, somehow, I feel as if some part of my identity lies in the other country, one which I am constantly reminded is our enemy to the extent that I cannot even cheer their cricket team
Fri, Aug 12, 2022
Vikram Patel writes | The need of the hour: ASHA for elderlySubscriber Only
July 26,2022 04:40:32 AM
Vikram Patel writes writes: India’s ingenuity in leveraging community resources to address her complex problems presents a unique opportunity to make her a country which offers a hopeful future for both her elderly and her young people
Tue, Jul 26, 2022
Vikram Patel writes: Murder in Madhya Pradesh — I am BhanwarlalSubscriber Only
May 30,2022 18:32:01 PM
With each Bhanwarlal, a part of each of us dies too. Such violence is a symptom of a society that needs to heal
Tue, May 31, 2022
Counting all those who died of CovidSubscriber Only
April 20,2022 04:00:24 AM
Vikram Patel writes: It is in everyone's interest to settle discrepancy between scientific and official estimates.
Wed, Apr 20, 2022
Why do Indians do so well abroad?Subscriber Only
January 19,2022 04:00:05 AM
🔴 Vikram Patel writes: It has less to do with their Indian heritage and more to do with Western countries’ commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Wed, Jan 19, 2022
Why the link between mental health and death penalty deserves greater attentionSubscriber Only
November 26,2021 03:16:53 AM
🔴 Vikram Patel writes: Courts need to ensure a more searching inquiry into the lives of death row prisoners, particularly the mitigating factors which help humanise the perpetrator, creating the possibility of compassion in passing judgement
Sat, Nov 27, 2021
It’s time for a national conversation on how to live with the virusSubscriber Only
September 07,2021 03:32:48 AM
Vikram Patel writes: The right path must lead towards fully reopening society. The goal is not to eliminate the infection but to reduce sickness and mortality to as low as one possibly can.
Thu, Sep 09, 2021
The miracle of allopathy: A response to Baba RamdevSubscriber Only
May 27,2021 03:30:24 AM
Allopathic medicine has deciphered the genetic code of a novel infectious agent, developed a slew of new vaccines to protect humans, tested them in large population trials, and got them to the market, in just one year
Thu, May 27, 2021
Need of the hour is to ensure well-being of the vulnerable, whom we failed last timeSubscriber Only
April 24,2021 03:10:59 AM
Our political class must set aside differences to act quickly and with compassion to ensure economic security and well-being of the vulnerable, as we fight back second wave of Covid-19.
Sat, Apr 24, 2021
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