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Dear Reader,
India has been touted as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, after the notable role it played in supplying Covid vaccines, especially to the countries of the Global South. However, this reputation is being sullied by instances of spurious drugs from India allegedly causing deaths of children, most recently in Uzbekistan.
ThePrint reported from the underbelly of India’s pharma industry, on the outskirts of the national capital Delhi, and found a shadowy and unregulated world of dubious drugs, ramshackle units, suspect ingredients and manipulated data.
As the Supreme Court of India is being petitioned seeking legal recognition of non-heterosexual, LGBTQ+, marriages, The India Forum argues that ‘marriage equality’, should go beyond the male-female binary. If it does, it has the potential to be one of the most important family law reforms in a generation.
In 2022, India languished at 135 among 146 nations in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, ironically an improvement from the year earlier. India Development Review says the findings point to the absence of women in political and public spaces and the lack of social and economic security.
And, three weeks after Uttarakhand’s Joshimath was brought to the brink of sinking with almost a thousand houses developing cracks, the citizens of the town still face anxiety and uncertainty over their rehabilitation. The Citizen reports on the people’s fear of displacement, to places far away from their locations, which could cost them their present livelihoods.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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