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BIG PHARMA, GENERIC DRUGS & LIVING WITH HIV

The struggle against the over-zealous patenting of life-saving drugs was dealt a victory in India last…

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WHY INDIA’S COTTON FARMERS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE

Sangam lost his mother several years ago when she committed suicide in a desperate bid to escape the misery of life with her alcoholic husband. I don’t know why Sangam’s now-estranged father turned to liquor but it is worth appreciating that the prevalence of alcoholism (and suicide) inevitably rises among populations immersed in the hopelessness of debt, contributing to individual ruin and the eventual undoing of communities. As a measure of the crisis in rural India, an average of 47 farmers a day committed suicide in 2009.…

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Tom Pietrasik is a photographer and video producer based in New York City.

Tom regularly works for media outlets like the Guardian, international NGOs including Oxfam, UN agencies like UNICEF and for corporate clients including Standard Chartered and Gartner Inc.

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