Tabassum Barnagarwala
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Journalist covering health, pharma, rural & social issues | @scroll_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | @ICFJ Fellow|Email: tabassum.b7@gmail.com
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For months, tribal children in Madhya Pradesh kept dying. The government woke up too late
Mahasingh Parte lives in the last hut in a village on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. To reach the village, Matla, one has to trek a kilometre up a hill, on muddy trails and slippery slopes. The village in Balaghat district in eastern Madhya Pradesh is surrounded by rolling hills and forests, a picture of tranquility for tourists visiting the nearby Kanha National Park.
How a bureaucrat has forced Maharashtra’s eateries and other food businesses to clean up their act
On August 8, a packed auditorium in Pune rose to applaud Tukaram Mundhe. Some took videos of the bureaucrat walking up to the stage. Others shouted out compliments. The event itself was titled “Unstoppable Tukaram”. Rarely has any bureaucrat appointed Maharashtra’s food and drug administration commissioner met with such public adulation.
How adulterated fairness creams led to a surge of mercury poisoning cases in rural Maharashtra
In January, Rushikesh Dhore visited a doctor in Maharashtra’s Akola district with a range of problems – insomnia, irritability, twitching and pain in his leg muscles. But most striking for the 25-year-old was a feeling of “tremors” running through his legs. The doctor was perplexed and advised Dhore, a resident of Goregaon village in Murtijapur, to visit a neurologist in Akola city, 50 km away. Neurologist Dr Nitin Virwani immediately knew what the problem was.
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