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Cars, Cancer, Condos & Condoms
With inputs from Anand Ranganathan If you, as me, didn’t know what is common between cars, cancer, condoms and condominiums in that order, here’s a crash-course....
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Italian Slap & Indian Fickle
Masilamani Mudali Street is a road in Chennai, India. All roads don’t lead to Rome. Massimiliano Latore, an Italian marine and his colleague – charged with killing 2 Indian fishermen – laughed all the...
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Of Media Priorities
Joke used to be that if you held an Indian passport, you required a visa to travel to your neighbour’s house. Neighbour as in next door, and not Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar and...
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ET Bites The TB Bullet
In a scathing editorial (Tuberculosis of the Governance Nodules) on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, The Economic Times called for the sacking of India’s health minister for his failure to procure drugs for...
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Letting The Children Starve
The word “cretin” has entered the English language to mean anything from a dim-wit to a simpleton to someone downright stupid. Or shall we say challenging – c’est très tendance! If you accept this...
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The Quattrocchi Gravy Train
Italian accountant Ottavio Quattrocchi who was paid a bribe of $7.2 million in the 1986 Bofors-India gun deal passed away last weekend. He was no ordinary commission agent operating in India. He was a...
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Putting the Donkey Last
Co-authored by Anand Ranganathan You can take an Indian out of India, but you cannot take his foot out of his mouth. In an interesting piece about himself in Mint, noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati...
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Tobacco Kills: Don’t Be Duped*
Minnesota, USA, 1994 They had never lost a case in the United States of America, winning over 300 in 40 years. Selling death as life to people around the world, the tobacco industry was invincible....
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Tobacco Kills: Part 2
How do you package death as life, disease as health and a deadly addiction as the taste of freedom and celebration of life? Ask the tobacco industry and one of its strong allies in India, the...
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Journalism For Public Health
Newslaundry, Chitra Subramaniam Duella and Dr. Franklin Apfel recently joined hands to launch Media’s pH Value. The work was first written about in the British Medical Journal and it is reproduced...
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