Singapore’s zero tolerance for drugs and its traffickers

April 27, 2023

Recently, Singapore pronounced death sentence to a man for drug trafficking, attempting to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, twice the amount that attracts death penalty. It is estimated that Singapore has executed over 250 people for drug offences between 1991 and 2007, and 11 people in recent times. Singapore boasts...

India’s foreign policy now on the front foot

April 11, 2023

An average Indian seems to resonate deeply with foreign policy and our response to global media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always batted from a strong External Affairs policy, putting India first. Now we have Minister S. Jaishankar and Indians can’t seem to get enough of what he has to...

India’s foreign policy now on the front foot

April 10, 2023

An average Indian seems to resonate deeply with foreign policy and our response to global media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always batted from a strong External Affairs policy, putting India first. Now we have Minister S. Jaishankar and Indians can’t seem to get enough of what he has to...

How your lifestyle sickness,<br>keeps Big Pharma in business

How your lifestyle sickness,
keeps Big Pharma in business

January 28, 2023

In this concluding part of the series - India needn’t follow the ‘broken’ US healthcare model, let’s focus our attention on the perpetu-al sickness that keeps the in-dustry in business, and how India can play it differently. A recent poll from Gallup found that the pharmaceutical sector is the most...

How Big Pharma bulldozes cultures, muzzles opinion

January 27, 2023

When we ‘medicalise emotions’, we shift the responsibility for mental well-being away from a naturally resilient brain, into the hands of Big Pharma, who reap multi-billion-dollar profits by making them medical conditions. When we talk of Big Pharma marketing, we visualize trade sanctions and bullying local governments. The process is...

India needn’t follow ‘broken’ US healthcare model

January 26, 2023

North America is Big Pharma’s wet dream, with 45% of the global market share coming from just 4% of the total world population. Mayo Clinic found 70% of Americans are prescribed at least one medication including, antibiotics, anti-depressants, and painkillers. What better than to model the whole world, after this...

Why India did not allow Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

January 23, 2023

Pfizer never came to India. Pfizer applied for clearance for its vaccine in 2020. Indian regulators demanded a local safety and immunogenicity study. Such bridging studies are the common world over. All other foreign vaccine makers had conducted similar studies in India. But Pfizer refused to do a local trial. ...