State Health Care? Choice Is Healthy Too
LETTER FROM INDIA PONDICHERRY, INDIA — My nanny’s son almost died last year. It started with a pain in the boy’s stomach, a light fever. His mother took him to the local government hospital, where treatment was free, but the doctors were overworked and indifferent. They gave the boy some antibiotics and discharged […]
Birth Pangs of a Brash New Country
LETTER FROM INDIA PONDICHERRY, INDIA — My grandmother still remembers the peepal tree that grew outside her house in Agra. She remembers the park where her children used to play. She remembers uncrowded, unhurried roads, an easy pace of life. This was in the 1950s. My grandmother had recently moved from Lahore, in present-day […]