'If a stranger refuses to pet my Russian dog, what treatment can I expect for myself?'
On the ground, rural medical infrastructure and more crucially, women's access to reproductive health services is practically non-existent in Uttar Pradesh, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
'I worry that the suffering of these people might be as invisible as the people themselves,' observes Geetanjali Krishna.
'When I read that the blaze has engulfed the beautiful oak and pine forests around Kumaon's Lake District, my heart bled,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
'We are patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld.'
'I may not have had a lot of money to spend on her, but I certainly make sure the government did,' a Delhi electrician who inspired his daughter to study tells Geetanjali Krishna.
'I realised that if we don't get relief from the government, I'll be faced with the prospect of either starving in Delhi, or starving in my village.'
'Suffering has no religion,' an Uber driver tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Although Kamini has only studied till class five, she quickly got the hang of sending audio messages before her life turned upside down.
Social stigma associated with Covid-19 has led to people denying that they, or their family members, have it - and this will make the task of containing the pandemic much harder, notes Geetanjali Krishna.
At a time when the country's medical infrastructure has become incapable of handling the pressure of Covid's deadly second wave, a parallel wave of conmen, black marketers and counterfeiters can be witnessed across the country. Geetanjali Krishna reports.
What years of education, social messaging and reservations couldn't accomplish, water scarcity did in one summer, says Geetanjali Krishna.
The pandemic has shown that whether any of us have the virus or not, what most of us don't have when confronted by it is simple humanity.
'If I'm able to help even a few patients during this terrible time, I'll feel I've done my duty,' Ward boy Karan Solanki tells Geetanjali Krishna.
In the past, and even to some extent today, silver jewellery used to be an accurate indicator of a family's creditworthiness, says Geetanjali Krishna.
A simple act of generosity has gone a long mile, women of the locality no longer have to battle over water.
Who'd have imagined that a bunch of poor, illiterate women in a slum would be able to achieve this?
'I'll survive for a month, but worry about what will happen if the lockdown isn't eased after that.'
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
'The COVID-19 pandemic is going to send an unprecedented number of low-income households deep into poverty,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
'As for people like me, if the virus doesn't get us -- the measures being taken against it definitely will.'
The high-profile rape cases in Hathras, in Unnao (2018) and Kathua (2018) show that the infrastructure slated under the Nirbhaya Fund is either absent or inefficient, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
Invisible Scars wants to bring domestic abuse out of the bedroom and into public discourse.
As the country erupts over the CAA and NRC, all I can do is think of Daya Ram from Pakistan in Jodhpur and Tehmina from Afghanistan in Delhi, says Geetanjali Krishna.
There are almost 1 million people in India with a cleft palate or cleft lip who have not received any treatment to remedy their condition. Every year, almost 35,000 infants are born with cleft lip and palate, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
How did people with less education than me and my several degrees navigate the Internet with such ease, asks Geetanjali Krishna.
Tudu's free tuition classes are sought after. She has 45 students who come to her every day to study. Geetanjali Krishna meets the young teacher in one of India's poorest villages, winner of the Plan India Youth Champion Award.
'We're faceless while we're alive, invisible when we die.'
'It is especially discouraging for young people in the development sector. I've noticed that many of them are actively considering other career options to escape this atmosphere.' Geetanjali Krishna reports.
'With running water our two hands play, In and out the colourful soap dances away! It bubbles and froths between our fingers Under our nails it cleans and lingers Then all the soap we wash away!'
'Even the most basic water amenities, people like us used every day, didn't exist there at all.'
'Within and outside their homes, all married women in this region must cover not only their heads, but in some cases, faces too,' discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
Nagpur-based Slum Soccer is transforming the lives of slum children with the help of football, writes Geetanjali Krishna.
The physical and mental benefits that accrued from labour, Trivediji said, were far greater than those accrued from mere exercise. Which pearl of wisdom left Geetanjali Krishna facing an existential crisis.
St Jude India ChildCare Centres is a unique organisation which runs residential homes for families of children who need to undergo long-term cancer treatment. Its 37 centres close to India's premier cancer hospitals give children a fighting chance against the disease.
A Class 12 student is changing the lives of the girls in her village, says Geetanjali Krishna.
In the run-up to the 2019 election, netas of all hues are reiterating their devotion for all things bovine, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Why was it so easy for students to get a college degree? asks Geetanjali Krishna.
'Although I feel more comfortable living with my own people, I often remember those cricket matches by the river bank...'
Their lives, spent in a state of chronic hunger and deprivation, are a telling indictment of India's porous social security net, says Geetanjali Krishna.
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