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“Communities have to be the first stakeholder in any conversation around health. They will pick the right solutions.”

August 23, 2021

Tribal Health Initiative (THI) was started in 1992 by Dr. Regi George and Dr. Lalitha Regi. Medical graduates from Alappuzha, Kerala, the two backpacked across India in the early ’90s to look for a place that could use them most. They reached Sittilingi, a land of hills and Malavasis (‘Hill People’), with an infant mortality rate of 150, the highest in India.

“The workers who built it would work in the mines during the day and construct the hospital at night.”

August 17, 2021

Dr. Ture volunteers with the YuMetta Foundation and has been working with Shaheed Hospital in Chhattisgarh since 2019. In his interview with The Third Eye, he shares his insights about decentralised and community-driven health models and processes.

“We wish we could give the community solutions, not just collect data.”

July 6, 2021

An ASHA worker explains how the rethinking of her role inside the public health system would wildly improve her life as well as that of the community.

“Communities that have control over their resources, have been more resilient during the pandemic.”

June 14, 2021

Ashish Kothari, an activist who has been studying ecological and development alternatives his whole life, talks about the communities that stayed safe during the pandemic. He has been a powerful force in ecological and social equity decades before they were buzzwords in India.

Let Me Try And Find You A Bed

May 24, 2021

“At 11 pm, a girl from Lucknow called for an oxygen bed for her relatives. I forwarded all the verified leads I had and was searching for more. She said a few numbers are switched off, or not working, or they don’t have beds anymore.

Life in Six

March 2, 2021

“Stay at home, stay safe. Just chill out at home, everyone told us,” murmur many young women in long distance phone calls, voice notes and Whatsapp messages, tenuous lines keeping us together during lockdown.

Suneeta Is Typing, Part 2

January 7, 2021

The Third Eye continues the landmark conversation between Pooja Pande and Suneeta Prajapati of Khabar Lahariya, on what it means to be a rural journalist.

Suneeta Is Typing, Part I

November 11, 2020

The Third Eye brings to you part I of a landmark conversation between Pooja Pande and Suneeta Prajapati of Khabar Lahariya…

Rajam Akka, Buzzcut

November 10, 2020

Beyond gender categories, there is the actual living of lives. Srija met Rajam Akka in a chance encounter at a construction site.

Life in Ten