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Where Do the Immensely Diverse People of India and South Asia Come From

Historians and genetic scientists have the same answer

Jan 20, 2021

Where Do the Immensely Diverse People of India and South Asia Come From

Jan 20, 2021

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Traditional Medicine in India: Less About Medicine, More About India

Our traditional medicine discourse is permeated by Hindu and Brahman exceptionalism, which masquerades abroad as Indian exceptionalism.

Jul 30, 2023

Traditional Medicine in India: Less About Medicine, More About India

Jul 30, 2023

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Educational Material Regarding the Violence in Gaza

The reason Gaza violence is exceptional is the despicable ways in which elites in EuroAmerica are committing, justifying, & supporting it.

Dec 27, 2023

Educational Material Regarding the Violence in Gaza

Dec 27, 2023

Reflections on the responses to the sexual violence at RG Kar Hospital

Not one statement, letter or tweet from the IMA has bothered to touch upon the structural factors that lead to sexual violence.

Aug 21

Reflections on the responses to the sexual violence at RG Kar Hospital

Aug 21

“If Hard Work Made You a Billionaire, Every Woman in Rural India Would Be One”

The destructive nature of the billionaire phenomenon

Jul 19

“If Hard Work Made You a Billionaire, Every Woman in Rural India Would Be One”

Jul 19

From Noisy Citizens To Docile Subjects: The People Of India After 2014

As a nation, we Indians have never been so foolish, so docile, so servile — it is embarrassing really.

Jul 9

From Noisy Citizens To Docile Subjects: The People Of India After 2014

Jul 9

Indian Healthcare’s New Mistake/Folly

Adult BCG vaccination: A flawed last-ditch attempt to ‘eliminate’ TB?

Jun 26

Indian Healthcare’s New Mistake/Folly

Jun 26

The Myths Around Dr Dilip Mahalanabis, the “Father” of ORS

How science and scientists’ work are distorted in the social media jungle

Apr 19

The Myths Around Dr Dilip Mahalanabis, the “Father” of ORS

Apr 19

The viral AIIMS Twitter post and the state of healthcare in India

The elite are not suddenly going to be convinced of the towering idea that the underprivileged deserve the same kind of healthcare as them.

Dec 9, 2023

The viral AIIMS Twitter post and the state of healthcare in India

Dec 9, 2023

Why I’m Losing Hope in India

It is the flattening of diversity, the undermining of education, and the entire ‘banality of evil’ around us that make me lose hope in…

Aug 14, 2023

Why I’m Losing Hope in India

Aug 14, 2023

Kiran Kumbhar

Kiran Kumbhar

Historian. History, science, and healthcare; kindness, commonsense, and reason. Twitter @kikumbhar. Support: paypal.me/historymedicineindia; Venmo: @kirkum

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