Hindi poet and translator based in Bangalore, India.

polio_3Barely two decades ago, India held more than half of world’s polio cases. In February last year, India’s name was struck off the list of polio-endemic countries as there was no case of polio reported in the country for over a year. In three months from now, India will be declared a polio-free nation. A people’s movement indeed, with over 23 lakh volunteers who traveled across the country to vaccinate children, India is on the verge of pulling-off one of the greatest public-health coups in history. Read the complete article in Sankalp’s site

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    […] with over 23 lakh volunteers who traveled across the length and breath of the country to vaccinate children against polio, India was able to pull-off one of the greatest public-health coups in human history. Injectable […]

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