Kiran Kumbhar

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Bhore committee, public healthcare, private healthcare, Jawaharlal Nehru, socialism, NITI Aayog, district hospitals, Central Government Health Scheme, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Ayushman Bharat, health insurance, Joseph Bhore, Joseph Bhore Committee, Sunil Amrith,

Why India’s Founders Championed a State-Dominated Healthcare System

How B&W Bollywood Has Preserved a Snapshot of India’s Public Health Story

Western medicine, British medicine, Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata, Ayurveda, Unani, Native Medical Institution, colonialism, Western medicine, alternative medicine, human dissection, East India Company, Bhore committee report 1946, William Bentinck,

How the Calcutta Medical College Led to the Rise of Biomedicine in India

Ayurveda, Bhartiya Shiksha Board, board exams, CBSE, Harappan civilisation, Hindutva, Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratishthan, MHRD, Murty Trust, Prakash Javadekar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rewriting history, school textbooks, secondary education, state board education, Ved pathshalas, Vedic schools, Vedic text, Vedic vidyalayas

The British Origins of Gravity-Defying Ancient Indian Achievements

Archibald Cochrane, breast cancer screening, clinical trials, Cochrane Collaboration, conflict of interest, evidence-based medicine, Hilda Bastian, HPV, human papillomavirus, Peter Gøtzsche, pre-cancer, psychiatric medications, randomised controlled trials

Gøtzsche Affair Spotlights Challenges of Producing Good Evidence in Medicine

doctors, Keshav Desiraju, Madhya Pradesh, MBBS, medical college, medical corruption, medical professional, MK Mani, OPD, public healthcare, Vyapam Scam

Review: An Effort to Understand Why Medical Corruption Takes the Form It Does

Doctors performing a surgery at a hospital in Rourkela, Odisha, in 2013. Credit: sswain_1999/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

50 Years Ago: India’s First Heart Transplant in the Time of Nehruvian Science