Freedom of Expression. A much debated, analysed, construed and scrutinized issue. The press battles for its freedom, being the first to be clamped down in times of crises. A writer struggles to find the freedom to voice his or her thoughts, while trying to keep in mind the sentiments of the readers, and the state. [...]

On the one hand, I feel proud to see the number of female doctors in a field where women were restricted to their roles as midwives and nurses until not so long ago. But on the other hand, I wonder if it is fair to banish men from the world of female reproductive medicine.

When I was a student at the government general hospital at Chennai, I found many things about the hospital quite mysterious, intriguing and revealing. It was an old establishment, standing across central station since the British moved it to that location after the Anglo-French wars in the eighteenth century. Ever since it has grown around [...]

The issue of abortion has never been simple; always as much a question of morals and ethics as it is a question of health; always as much a question of life and death, as it is a question of choice. And the answers to the questions it raises are never easy to answer- not for [...]