Year: 2023
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A Community for Online Action in Community Health
Today Guru, John, Swamy, Ravi, and I met in the Health for All – Learning Center workspace at SOCHARA. We discussed an action plan for the next 3 years (with a focus on 2023-24) for the Digital Archives Platform unit at SOCHARA. The archives becomes a core activity for a community of community health activist-scholars…
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Non-violence Wasn’t Gandhi’s Only Message
I have read only one book of Gandhi – “My Experiments with Truth“. I read this when I was 13 or 14. I haven’t re-read the book after that. But Gandhi’s thoughts influences me to this day. “I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.” Today…
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Book Review: Everything is Obvious – Once You Know The Answers
I first saw this book in the Internet Freedom Foundation thread on which books people there were reading. Then I saw it on Scott Young’s blog which I have been following since childhood. I never got around to reading it till yesterday when I got into a 19 hour train ride to reach Sevagram for…
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Personal Is Political in Professional Practice
“Should a doctor treat an alcoholic who is injured due to drunk driving? Would your opinion change if it were just a solo accident v/s injuring/killing other people on the road?” asked @arshiet. The regular controversy. Should doctors judge their patients? Is it ethical to even ask the question of whether it is ethical for…
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History is to Practice
I’ve been in many debates where “science” is accused of being wrong. As if science is a set of things written down in a book or a set of ideas that are arrived at by a group of people. Something that has to be consumed by others. I’m baffled by this argument because, to me,…
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The Overcompensating Sociologists of Public Health
Reflexivity. That’s a word very dear to sociologists. It just means how we look at the world is influenced by who we are. But like many things sociology, you give it a word and then you make a big deal out of it. So much that some of the sociologists reading this post are already…