“Our public health systems, particularly in the cities, expect us to take care of ourselves.”
Menaka Rao is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on health, nutrition and justice. Here, Rao talks about her journey as a journalist reporting on the big, complex and often baffling institutional arrangements that are supposed to ensure our public health and how sometimes their inflexibility and lack of egalitarianism can lead to new health crises.