Bodies in Queue: Digital Healthcare and Questions of Access
Sruthi Madhu explores how structures of exclusion are built into India’s increasingly digitised health care system.
About the project
The Polyphony Meets India is a collection of articles and reviews by contributors from India, which explore experiences of health and healthcare in Indian contexts.
Led by Adarsh Yadav and Arya Ray, the project is a part of The Polyphony’s ongoing commitment to diversifying and widening the perspectives that contribute to dominant debates within the medical humanities through engagement with the Global South.
Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Reimagining Access: Self-Managed Abortion in India
Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape experiences of abortion.
Epidemic Narratives
Dilip K. Das introduces an interdisciplinary framework for epidemic narratives in India by drawing on methods from literature, social theory, and public health. He explores how communities, writers, and scholars make sense of outbreak narratives.
Holding and Beholding Art
Surjavo Sen Gupta reimagines a multisensory art gallery as a space for restoration and ocular relief through his time as a walk leader at the Flowing Heritage exhibition at Arthshila.
The Boatman of the Sewers: Queering Graphic Medicine
Suniti Madaan discusses how Amruta Patil’s graphic narrative Kari reconceptualises graphic medicine to trace the sociocultural and temporal paradigms of sickness in Mumbai.
Breathing Together: Multispecies Care in Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes
Anuj Kumar brings together ecological vulnerability, multispecies care, and relational health in his reading of Shaunak Sen’s film All That Breathes.
The Case of Martial Metaphor: Art and Antimicrobial Resistance
Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes.
Book Review: Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narratives.
Seeing Differently: Colour Blindness, Cinema, and the Politics of Perception
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.