Tabassum Barnagarwala
Health Reporter at Scroll.in
Keen on health, rural & social issues | Journalist with @scroll_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | @ICFJ Fellow| Email: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
For seven months last year, Aktari Mohammed Khan had to make frequent visits to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal hospital, 10 km from her home in Mumbai. Khan had splitting headaches due to a neurological condition called occipital neuralgia. With no money to afford private treatment, she had to travel in crowded buses till the hospital in Sion, where a government neurologist treated her for free.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Tabassum Barnagarwala
Dharavi Is Full Of Talent, Says Simran Shaikh, India's Rs 1.9-Crore Cricket RockstarShe couldn't do enough to beat the Mumbai Indians that day, but by any yardstick we may choose, Simran Shaikh is rockstar already - of women's …
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
In January, Gunja Kirti was a part-time consultant with a US-based humanitarian organisation working for gender rights when the company offered her a full-time role to lead their programme in India. “At that point I was also consulting with other organisations, but I decided to take the job offer and withdrew my services from other organisations,” Kirti told Scroll.
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4 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
On Tuesday, two days after workers of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena ran amok inside The Habitat, two women dressed in black stood outside the popular performance venue, one of them with roses in her hand. The club, housed in Mumbai’s UniContinental hotel, had drawn the ire of the Sena workers because a video shot there by comedian Kunal Kamra had mocked former deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, albeit without naming him.
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1 month ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
Earlier this month, Kohinoor Khatik came down with loose motions and bouts of vomiting. The doctor who examined her said she had contracted a water-borne illness. “People keep falling ill here,” said her husband Jalil Khatik, who spent Rs 800 on medicines for his wife. Khatik blames the frequent illnesses to the “open drains” and dirt in his neighbourhood in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. More specifically, he blames the contaminated water around the community toilet near his house in Amalner town.
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