Informed Consent is a crucial ethical principle applicable in the context of women accessing reproductive health services, specifically sterilisation. This paper deconstructs informed, understood and voluntary consent and applies it to the data gathered through exit interviews of 246 women who...

India is in the midst of a severe second wave of Covid-19. As per the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy by mid-April of 2021, India had manufactured nearly 17 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses globally. It was the world’s fourth-largest producer, after China (about 36 percent),...

It is well known that at the end of the last and during the present century the Indian economy performed much stronger than during the first decades after independence. In common discourse this improved performance is usually linked to the change in policy framework which was introduced in 1991...