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The intricate relationship between war and public health has been a tragic reality throughout human history. However, today’s world faces an unprecedented convergence of armed conflicts, with the wars in Gaza, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Yemen, Syria and Ukraine each leaving deep scars on health systems and civilian populations...
India’s ties with the African continent go back many centuries. Age-old maritime networks that developed in the Indian Ocean region, were further strengthened during the 19th and 20th centuries spurred by European colonialism. Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation came to the fore with the Bandung Conference held in April 1955 in Bandu...
In November 2021, in a mid-term evaluation for their paper on ‘Fundamentals of Political Science’ (an introductory course to political science that I teach), one of the questions I had asked my students in their first semester of the undergraduate integrated Humanities/Law honours programme, was the following: explain the (heavy) ‘luggage...
The deepening crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose the deficiencies of the current political and economic structures across the world. In the case of India, in particular, it has taken only a few months for the virus to ravage the country’s social fabric and dismantle its economic order rendering millions jobless, incomes and s...
India faces both opportunities and significant challenges as it strives to meet SDG 3 targets of “ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages” by 2030, and halving premature mortality by 2050, in line with the recently released Lancet Commission’s Global Health 2050 report. Although India has undertaken ambitious i...
