#Ashokwrites

Ashok has been a regular columnist and writer for Mint, and now the Hindustan Times. In his columns, Ashok writes about issues pertaining to public health delivery at scale, drawing from his personal experiences from the field.

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An author, Ashok published his first book "A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, Leadership and Courage from India's Sex Workers (Juggernaut)” in November 2018.

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​The book has received wide appreciation and coverage with over 30 publications, interviews and reviews from known media houses, both national and international. Bill Gates, in advance comments on the book called it “[A] powerful story of hope that deserves to be widely read”, while Amitav Ghosh commented that this was “A portrait of contemporary India like no other…An unusually gifted writer”.

Columns and articles written by Ashok 

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Hindustan Times

• Build a network to share knowledge about health - 20 Oct 2019

• India's menstrual health: End the crisis of shame - 04 Aug 2019

• Attract more talent to public health - 18 Apr 2019

• This election, focus on delivering on public health - 27 Mar 2019

• Why the Centre must invest more in the National Creche Scheme- 02 Mar 2019

• India fails its malnourished young - 24 Jan 2019

• We must give our girls the chance to dream big - 19 Dec 2018

• Health Programmes need community engagement - 07 Dec 2018

• Micro data can help make public health delivery systems better - 20 Feb 2018

Mint

• India needs a better report card to meet SDG targets on healthcare - 02 Aug 2018

• How India can sustain progress in family planning - 25 Jul 2018

• Educating girls can improve India's health outcomes - 18 Jul 2018

• Simple mobility solutions can save many lives - 12 Jul 2018

• Tech solutions must come from the grassroots - 04 Jul 2018

• Kerala and Cuba: Curious twins and winners in public health delivery- 27 Jun 2018

• Core elements of effective advocacy: Message, audience, method and data - 21 Jun 2018

• Switching the donor-grantee relationship - 13 Jun 2018

• Adolescent girls as agents of change in communities - 06 Jun 2018

• What Tamil Nadu, Kerala can teach other states - 22 May 2018

• Hole in a pocket: Story of Indian health spend - 02 May 2018

• Public health lessons for India from Bangladesh - 25 Apr 2018

• Zone of immediacy and its implications for giving - 18 Apr 2018

• Business, public health make for a perfect marriage - 11 Apr 2018

• Child health and the golden 1,000 days period - 04 Apr 2018

• Women can better solve grassroots health problems - 28 Mar 2018

• A mother and child health alphabet worth knowing - 21 Mar 2018

• Rural public health facilities in India need urgent fixing - 14 Mar 2018

• Indians are shorter, and that's a problem - 07 Mar 2018

• Knowledge is power - 28 Feb 2018

• Wisdom of the crowd - 22 Feb 2018

• Real-time data sharing among rural health workers can save lives - 15 Feb 2018

• Groping in the dark - 25 Jan 2018

• Smart Philanthropy: Six strategic questions - 18 Jan 2018

• It takes a village - 10 Jan 2018

India Development Review 

• How do we think about scaling up? - 20 Sep 2018

Healthpost

• It is possible to address the micro-data gap in healthcare delivery with creativity and diligence - 28 Sep 2017

NDTV

• The missing element in public health delivery is community - 13 Jul 2017