Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: DEATH

Denial wouldn’t help us Fight Starvation Deaths

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Activists have time and again warned the nation state of starvation deaths but the sheer denial of its existence on the part of the government adds to the collective agony.

A Modern Hospital and the Agonies of a Technologically Monitored Death

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BIO - MEDICINE In this brief note, the author has reflected on bio-medicine, and the ethical issues relating to healing, life and death.

Children ought to be told about Death

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PERSPECTIVE This article emerges out of the experience of a teacher who questions the negligence of important questions such as the meaning of death from our school curriculum and the larger discourse in the field of education. Gayatri Pattnaik

Reproducing Caste through Manual Scavenging: Myths and a Dark Reality

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ANALYSIS Legislation have banned manual scavenging but despite these, the practice continues to exist in most states of India. Without a change in social orientation and sustained state initiative, it is impossible to abolish this inhuman compulsion that rules over the lives of lakhs of Dalits employed as manual scavengers. Sundaresha D. S. 

Why are the Asiatic Lions of Gir Dying?

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The Asiatic lions of Gir are among the endangered species which if not taken care of will soon be absent from the landscape of earth. The recent deaths of more than a dozen such lions in Gir is a reminder of the insufficient care by the nation state of a species that adds a lot to India’s natural diversity.

Five Sanitation Workers Die in Delhi while Cleaning Septic Tank

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The death of five such workers in Delhi only highlights the negligence on part of the state and the larger insensitivity on the part of the citizenry. Radhika Shyam

When the Metropolis Killed a Pigeon

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SPECIAL ESSAY Metropolitan living has often made us incapable of humanity and brought home the illusion that all beings are secondary to humans. A recent experience of pain and inner conflict as reflected on by the author enabled him to see the irony of this anthropocentric fallacy.

Five Patients Die in Hospital ICU in Kanpur Because of AC Failure

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Five patients have died in Kanpur’s GSVM hospital because of AC failure. It is significant for the nation state to address the issues in public health sector.

What Savitri Devi’s Death Teaches Us about Lacunas in PDS

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JHARKHAND Deaths due to the inability of procuring complete documentation required at PDS outlets to get grains remind us of the pathos of mechanical administration. It is the death of Savitri Devi from Jharkhand that reminds us of our cultural inability in acknowledging issues of public distribution.

India’s Battle with Manual Scavenging

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MATTER OF CONCERN | Several manual scavengers lose their lives annually it is urgent to address the issue transcending legislative mechanisms.

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