Rare Disease Drugs: Can India Make Treatment More Affordable?

India already has a global reputation for making medicines affordable. Rare diseases present a harder challenge: can the country use its pharmaceutical strength, manufacturing capacity and policy tools to make high-cost treatments more accessible to patients who need them?

India Needs Rest: When the Global Workday Never Ends

Indian professional working through dinner while his wife and child wait during an after-hours global work call

It’s 8:30 pm in Bengaluru, and dinner is on the table but one chair is still empty. As Indian professionals increasingly work across Asia, Europe and North America, the workday has quietly stopped ending. This piece follows the money behind the “infinite workday” and asks who is really absorbing the cost when a company runs 24 hours but its people cannot.

Can AI Refill Your Prescription? What India Must Decide Before Saying Yes

Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, but should it be allowed to refill prescriptions in India? As AI becomes more capable of analysing medical records and supporting clinical decisions, questions about patient safety, legal accountability, ethics, and public trust become increasingly important. This article explores the opportunities and risks of AI-assisted prescription systems in the Indian healthcare context, examining whether technology should assist doctors—or begin replacing some of their routine responsibilities. AI Prescription in India…

The Cockroach Generation: How Memes Became Painkillers, Tribes Became Identity, and Survival Became a Way of Life

The Cockroach Generation symbolizing modern survival culture, digital tribes, meme psychology, uncertainty, and resilience in the digital age.

What began as an internet joke evolved into a powerful symbol of modern survival. The Cockroach Generation explores how memes became emotional painkillers, digital tribes became identity systems, and uncertainty transformed survival into a way of life.