A look at arsenic contamination in eastern Uttar Pradesh, its impact on rural communities, groundwater safety and the role of documentary journalism in exposing the public health crisis. A documentary about arsenic poisoning in Uttar Pradesh cannot begin with a policy failure. It has to begin with a hand. A hand showing the characteristic pale…
AKSHAY KUMAR From a film about household toilets to beach bio-toilets and ministry campaigns, the actor’s decade on water, sanitation and hygiene shows both the reach and the limits of celebrity advocacy As of 17 September 2026, a government factsheet shows, rural India has built over 12.22 crore household toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen,…
International Stuttering Awareness Day highlights the importance of stuttering awareness, inclusive education, and workplace inclusion for people who stammer. By promoting speech disorder awareness, accessible communication, and equal opportunities, schools and workplaces can create supportive environments where everyone’s voice is heard. A colleague once refused to compere an important event we had organised. His refusal…
As menopause enters India’s health conversation, the workplace remains overlooked. From symptoms affecting working women to gaps in policy and employer support, the article examines what Indian workplaces can do to make midlife inclusion a reality.
On World Mental Health Day 2026, Clear Cut examines the mental health challenges facing India’s daily-wage workers, the country’s treatment gap and whether expanding mental healthcare services are reaching those who need them most. Every morning, millions of Indians leave their homes uncertain about how much they will earn that day. Some find work at…
The estimate is for 2023. India had nearly 148 million chewing-tobacco users that year—about six in ten users worldwide India carries about 65% of the estimated global death toll An estimated 1.63 lakh Indians died from diseases, which is attributable to chewing tobacco in 2023. That amounts to roughly 450 deaths a day. India accounted…
Aravind Eye Care System, founded by Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy, developed a sustainable healthcare model combining cross-subsidy, high-volume cataract surgery and rural outreach. Its approach has made affordable, high-quality eye care accessible at scale while influencing healthcare organisations in India and abroad. In 1976, at the age of 58, a retired government ophthalmologist with rheumatoid arthritis…
Karnataka FDA has cancelled 16 drug licences and suspended eight others following an investigation into an alleged fake-medicine racket in which medicines, machinery, packaging material and forged labels worth about ₹5.05 crore were seized.” Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has cancelled the licences of 16 wholesale and retail drug establishments and suspended eight…
The Wall Street Journal called him the Henry Ford of heart surgery. Harvard Business School made his hospital a case study. The World Economic Forum recognised his model as transformational for global healthcare. But the number that matters most in Dr Devi Prasad Shetty’s story is not any of these recognitions. It is ₹95,000. That…
The queue outside a Netranjali eye camp at a truck stop in Maharashtra begins to form before the team sets up equipment. The men standing in it are long-distance truckers spending 12-hour days staring at roads. They often deal with uncorrected vision problems; they have neither the time nor the money to fix them at…
