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Aashish gave a wonderful presentation @ South Asia Conference on Policies and Practices to Improve Nutrition Security

Written by Nikhil Srivastav on July 30th, 2014

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Seeing through Smoke | Sangita Vyas | The Caravan

The Caravan recently published Sangita's article on dangerously high levels of outdoor air pollution in rural India, a problem which garners very little attention. Read the article here.

Down the Drain | Sagar | The Caravan

The Caravan's cover story this month is on the Swachh Bharat Mission, and concludes that it is "heading for failure." The article compellingly points out that

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Understanding open defecation in rural India: Untouchability, pollution, and latrine pits

Open defecation in rural India presents a puzzle: India has far higher open defecation rates than other developing regions where people are poorer, literacy rates

Open defecation, which is still practiced by about a billion people worldwide, is one of the most examples of how place influences health in developing

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