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According to the Indian Express, the Indian govt is evaluating a set of guidelines for Infertility clinics. Quote from IE:
“When there were no rules, there was no question of prosecution,’’ said a senior ICMR official, adding, ‘‘there is no reliable information on the number of ART clinics in India as there is no […]

The Harvard Business School newsletter Working Knowledge has an article on Dr. Devi Shetty’s Narayana Hrudalaya.

It’s kind of a Robin Hood hospital. When you walk in with a heart ailment, if you can pay, you pay; if you can’t pay, you get treated for free. It doesn’t matter what your heart ailment is. Its operating […]

Amit writes about plagiarism in the Indian blogosphere. I saw a couple of interesting blog posts, circa Nov 2004, that caught a famous film critic from one of India’s biggest newspapers plagiarizing blatantly from the reviews of a world famous US critic. Read about it in Kitabkhana and DesiMediaBitch.

Around 1997-98, CricInfo published an article on […]

Article in the Indian Express on Blogging. Nice pic of “boyish looking 32 year old” posing for Rodin.
From Yazad: Badly written article. I was hoping it would be ignored but as it is not, I shall post later today on why I think it was badly written. Today’s Express has a much much better piece […]

Since we’re arguing about the virtues of free markets in many blogs, these research papers may be of interest.
The privatization of water services reduces child mortality
Is Trade good for the environment? (short version, long version)

I expected to see Yazad featured in this photo exhibition on Contemporary Parsi life. :-)
Click on the gallery and then on each pic.

As expected, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Y.S. R. Reddy has had to reconsider his populist strategy of free electricity for farmers. Quite unsurprisingly, rich farmers were major beneficiaries of this scheme. The Financial Times reports:
Jayaprakash Narayan, head of Lok Satta, a “citizen’s movement” in Hyderabad, says there is already nostalgia for Mr […]

Janani is a non-profit organization in Bihar that "leverages private sector resources to supplement public sector service delivery". In plain speak, their mission is to provide the means for planned parenthood for low-income rural Biharis. Abortion, especially that of the unsafe variety is rife in Bihar. Janani offers a means to do it safely. They […]