Our team used a thermal camera to capture temperature readings of a few street markets in Delhi. The highest reading recorded was 59°C. It's hard to even imagine how our street vendors are dealing with the heatwave.

Pc @selomigarnaik

The workers' movement which gave us the Right to Information👇

In 2014, Corporate Tax was double of the Income Tax collection.

After 10 Yrs, Individual Income Tax is more than Corporate Tax.

Want to know why there is lingering anxiety regarding adverse events from Covid vaccination?
It is thanks to govt's tendency to hide/deny data, details regarding adverse events which fueled the anti-vaxxers
Read this fantastic thread👇

In Frontline, I write on the suggestion for inheritance taxes in India and the engineering of a bizarre and irrational atmosphere of fear around it. Economic inequality in India has skyrocketed, and it is only apt that the idea is openly discussed.

frontline.thehindu.com/politics/wealt…

You know what else is key to #EndTB ? Reducing poverty, improving nutrition, and making drugs available. Awareness is useless on its own.

Also, can't really adhere to treatment if drugs are out of stock.

Policy paralysis in govt and regulatory agencies when it comes to tackling industry?👇

My piece in The Indian Express on childcare and constitutional rights of working mothers.

International Economic Association - Women in Econ International Economic Association IEA International Association for Feminist Economics Centre for Economic Data and Analysis Ashoka University

#EconTwitter

Please get in touch if you/anyone you know experienced long delay in insurance approval in a hospital anywhere in India
Doctors/hospitals/insurance agents/TPA adminstrators can also get in touch about their experience with approval delays and reasons for it
Anant Bhan Dr. Divyesh B Mundra 🇮🇳

So many parents/family of young people who died after Covid vaccination have been saying this
And now Astra Zeneca admits in UK court that it's Covid vaccine can cause rare clotting side effects
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/inter…

Central govt can't be bothered with fixing rates? It can fix rates for 50 crore under Ayushman implemented by States
But Centre will throw middle class who don't come under Ayushman to the wolves and let them deal with rampant loot saying it is the headache of state govts?
WHY?

Rema Nagarajan Same experience myself. Lower rate for insurance is supposed to be bargaining power. But, the time-value of receiving immediate payment from someone who goes direct should be more than enough to equate the rates. What a scam. Like I want to stay a minute longer in the hospital !!

The amendments to DMR Act to tighten law on misleading drug Ads is under 'suspended animation' since 2020. Story by Rema Nagarajan for The Times Of India

Hope the Govt of India will enact it soon