80 Lakh HPV Vaccinations: Why India’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Story Starts Before Adulthood It begins much earlier — with an adolescent girl receiving a vaccine. India’s most important cancer-prevention story this year may not begin in a cancer hospital More than 80 lakh doses of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have now been administered under […]
Ayurveda in Modern India: Can Ancient Knowledge Meet Modern Evidence? In India, Ayurveda has never really disappeared. It has lived in kitchens, homes, temples, clinics and family traditions — in the morning glass of something herbal that grandmother insisted was essential, and in the occasional debate over whether the remedy actually worked. But something more […]
India Is Ageing Fast: Why Elderly Healthcare Can No Longer Be an Afterthought India’s demographic story is changing. The country is still young, but its elderly population is growing so rapidly that healthcare, family structures, housing, pensions and even the way cities are designed will have to adapt. For decades, India’s healthcare conversation was dominated […]
Young India Is Learning to Solve Problems, Not Just Live With Them India’s young generation is entering adulthood with a different relationship to problems. Instead of automatically accepting inconvenience as permanent, more young Indians are asking a deceptively simple question: why can’t this be fixed? For generations, Indians became exceptionally good at adapting. A delayed […]
India’s Health Reset: For much of India’s modern healthcare story, the starting point has been familiar: Something hurts. Find a doctor. The next steps usually involve a consultation, diagnostic test, medicine and, if necessary, a hospital. That model will always remain necessary. Acute illness cannot be prevented simply by downloading another health app. But India is […]
The People Saving Species Most of Us Rarely Notice India’s wildlife conservation story is often told through tigers, elephants and rhinos. But some of the country’s most remarkable conservation battles involve animals that many Indians would struggle to recognise — and people whose names rarely make national headlines. Ask someone to name an Indian conservation […]
India’s Young Biotech Innovators: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Solutions One in which young scientists, researchers, students and entrepreneurs are increasingly being encouraged to take ideas beyond the laboratory and test whether they can work in the real world. For years, biotechnology in India was associated primarily with research laboratories, pharmaceutical manufacturing and vaccines. That […]
From Jugaad to Strategic Innovation: How India Is Building Its Next Technology Economy India’s technology story is entering a different phase. The ambition is no longer simply to find clever solutions with limited resources. It is increasingly about building the chips, computing infrastructure, scientific capabilities and intellectual property that allow India to shape the technologies […]
What America’s Extended Visa Fee Means for Indian Professionals The extended US H-1B restriction is not a ban on Indian professionals. But it could reshape how American companies recruit global talent — and make India an even more important technology…
China’s Memory-Chip Breakthrough: Why India’s Semiconductor Ambition Is Watching Closely As China pushes deeper into advanced memory manufacturing, India is trying to build something larger than a chip factory — an entire semiconductor ecosystem. The semiconductor race is entering a…