FACES.

Images that talk! – This is my husband’s blog post. I loved it so much that I am re-posting it here. Here goes…. Faces. They tell you a story. A story that has never been told. A story that longs to be heard. These faces and these stories have an existence. But this very existence…

Tuberculosis (TB) is curable, but what about Social-Stigma?

‘India is moving towards urbanization’- this is one statement that I have heard, not once, but again and again in the past few days. I can’t stop myself from questioning this statement. Are we really moving towards scientific and rational thinking? Are we really changing our everyday outlook? I work for Operation ASHA, a nonprofit…

TB in Ghana

Tuberculosis on earth is not unlike craters on the moon. Deep and dark in certain areas, weak at others but omni-present never-the-less. Like many other developing countries of the world, Ghana, a country located in west-Africa, can be related to such a crater with high TB Prevalence. Out of a total population of 23,478,000 it…

Condition of Rural Poor in India

As quoted by Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes, ‘Society comprises of two classes:  those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food’.   Even though India is a fast growing developing economy, a BRIC nation, it is estimated that approximately 40% of its population is below the international poverty…