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  • Steep 24% drop in city’s birth rates in Covid years
    HT Correspondent
    Hindustan Times
    2022

    The Covid-19 pandemic has not caused a baby boom, but quite the opposite in the city. Mumbai registered nearly 24% fewer births in 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019—the second year of the country's second most populous city recording a significant drop in birth registrations.

  • Health Vulnerabilities among Children in the Age Group of 0-5: An Analysis of the Data from the NSS 71st Round.
    Biplab Dhak, N. Lalitha
    Gujarat Institute of Development Research
    2019

    This paper discusses health vulnerabilities of children in general followed by an analysis of data regarding health scenario of children below five years of age from

  • The Law and Homosexuality in India
    Sherry Joseph
    International Conference on Preventing Violence, Caring for Survivors
    1998

    While talking about law and homosexuality, I am reminded of a story of a washerman and his donkey. The donkey refused to move with the heavy bundle of clothes on his back from his house to the pond. The washerman nailed a carrot to a stick, which was tied in front of the animal's mouth.

  • Gynaecological Morbidity among Women in a Bombay Slum
    Indumati Parikh, Vijiylaxmi Taskar, Neela Dharap, Veena Mulgaonkar

    There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.