Ep #17: Breathing in India with Jyoti Pande Lavakare (Journalist and Activist)
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Air Pollution statistics from India are grim. And while there is no denying that, we must also make a conscientious effort to understand its causes, and more clearly, it's direct and indirect consequences.  In this insightful talk, Jyoti gives us the hard cold facts about the state of the air we breathe, how it impacts us, why we have normalised it, and how at its very core, this is a social equity problem. Like she states, this wicked problem needs to be solved using our "ballots and wallets" We conclude with a short reading from Jyoti's book, Breathing Here is Injurious to your Health, published in 2020 by Hachette India. (Jyoti Pande Lavakare is a columnist, financial journalist and writer who has lived and worked in Britain, the United States and India. Jyoti has written for and worked with publications such as The Wall Steet Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The Financial Times and Mint. She has a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and writes an independent column on India's entrepreneurial eco-system. She is a clean air missionary, and co founded the NGO, Care for Air.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/publichealthconversations/message
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