India
Social affairs, global health and environmental solutions agency cofounded by Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard, EJC/Grants Foundation grantees
Female doctors are disappearing following Taliban bans. That's bad news for a country where primary healthcare is on the verge of collapse.
Our experts reveal why so many people are still choosing to explore the country by train
Along the banks of the Manas River in the Indian state of Assam, impenetrable undergrowth gives way to sandy banks and clear water. A slim man walks ahead, searching, sniffing, and scanning. Tall trees of silk cotton ( Bombax ceiba) loom above him, laden with orchids and other epiphytes.
Iran's "hijab protests" have drawn attention to the erosion of women's access to reproductive healthcare. Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard report On 16 September 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Iranian girl, died after being arrested by the morality police for breaking the laws around "inappropriate attire"-she was wearing skinny jeans and not wearing her hijab "correctly."
Illness and disease are common in overcrowded refugee camps worldwide. Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard visit one camp that's trying to find solutions as the covid pandemic turns the screw Outside Jaisalmer in Rajasthan's Thar desert, a red sari flutters above yellow sand, hung from a mound of stone.
Zapped with solar electrical currents, struggling reefs can self-repair with incredible speed -- and even grow where none have existed before.
In September 2021, soon after a brutal second wave of Covid infection rocked her home state of West Bengal, Prathama Ghosh, 26, uploaded a video to her YouTube channel, That Glam Dancer. Ghosh is a dance teacher, choreographer and aspiring commercial dancer, and the number was a cover of Barso Re ('Let it Pour').
Afghanistan was already struggling to respond to the needs of its population before the Taliban takeover. Now the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, and medics say the world must work with the Taliban if it is to help, write Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard A fortnight ago Bashir (name changed to protect his identity), a hospital doctor in Kabul, decided to stop practising medicine.
