Patralekha Chatterjee
Patralekha Chatterjee is an award-winning journalist/columnist, and photographer focusing on development issues. Currently, her writing focuses on the intersection of politics and public policy on a range of inter-linked development issues for Indian and international media.
ग्रामीण भारत में कुपोषण और मोटापे की स्थिति चिंताजनक
पूर्वी चंपारण का गांव मंगरुहा उन गांवों में से एक है जो शायद ही कभी समाचारों में आता है, लेकिन पटना में रहने वाले एक डॉक्टर जो साप्ताह के अंत में रूरल क्लिनिक चलाते हैं, ने गौर किया कि लगभग 3,500 की...
Patralekha Chatterjee 9 March 2021 12:15 PM GMT
Toilet, cell phone, bank account … are you a part of the New India?
In 2010, a report by the Ontario-based United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-IWEH) created a stir by pointing out that more people in India have access to a ...
Patralekha Chatterjee 1 Nov 2019 6:10 AM GMT
This is why many children in India are still going to sleep hungry
Are children in impoverished tribal areas getting nutritious vegetarian meals in anganwadis and in the school-feeding programmes? The answer is no. The drama over the egg is a telling marker of how...
Patralekha Chatterjee 28 Sep 2019 8:55 AM GMT
India's malnourished children jostle with each other for resources
India is an aspiring superpower. It also has the highest proportion of undernourished children in the world. Why? That million-rupee question is going to be asked a lot as the country gears up...
Patralekha Chatterjee 30 Aug 2019 7:04 AM GMT
Why are women being coerced into removing their wombs?
The wombless women of Beed have emerged as talking points in the national and international media, in Maharashtra legislature and the Parliament. But Beed is only the tip of the iceberg. Wombless...
Patralekha Chatterjee 29 July 2019 12:08 PM GMT
Cut the clutter
Wading through the flood of words about the recent child deaths in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, one stark fact leaps out. The children could have been saved. It did not need rocket science. Nor much...
Patralekha Chatterjee 25 Jun 2019 7:51 AM GMT
Acute shortage of doctors and health workers imperil healthcare delivery in India
Those who have money in this country have the luxury of bypassing the creaky health care system and access world-class treatment in top, private hospitals. But what will change for the men and the...
Patralekha Chatterjee 28 May 2019 7:10 AM GMT
