Health Hazards: A Haunting Reality in Sandur

Sandur, which is amongst one of the mineral-rich towns in Bellary, Karnataka, has become a death trap. With a lack of awareness, ignorant mining companies, no maintenance of database regarding diseases, the treatment of Silicosis and silico-tuberculosis is hard to find. April 11, 2020                                        Hariswami, a resident of Chornur village, has been struggling to make […]

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Govt’s generic medicine scheme falls sick in Khustagi

Patients of Khustagi are not getting the full benefit of Janaushadhi stores, pressurizes the poor to buy expensive medicines. Ishika Dangayach Sana Sheikh, a 20-year-old girl from Nidasheshi village in Khustagi taluk, spends her day inside her small house with four other members of her family. For the last 15 years, she is suffering from […]

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The fault in the schemes: Sindagi HIV patients suffer in oblivion

The government schemes meant for the welfare of HIV patients have failed to make an impact in Sindagi taluk of Vijayapura district in Karnataka. Thus, the patients have accepted the disease’s consequences as their fate and therefore now continue to suffer, oblivious of the benefits available. By Manasvi Gupta The rough, shaky one-hour bus ride […]

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One toils, the other reaps the profit

The story of Karnataka and Maharashtra’s unbalanced division of labor and profit. By Jagriti Parakh When a fungal infection with no surefire remedy withered the world’s bananas and started sweeping through Maharashtra, farmers in Karnataka started growing bananas. The same happened and again the grapes turned sour when about two lakh hectares of vineyards in […]

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