Christianez Ratna Kiruba

Christianez Ratna Kiruba is an internal medicine physician working in Guwahati, India. She is also a freelance health writer and patient rights advocate with a special interest in gender. 

A woman exercises along the Arabian Sea.
Gender

India Is Unprepared for a PCOS Crisis

by Christianez Ratna Kiruba

Further research and evidence-based guidelines could help reconcile the increasingly common endocrine disorder

A child attends a protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl, in Kathua, near Jammu and a teenager in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh state, in New Delhi, India, on April 15, 2018.
Gender

Silent Suffering

by Christianez Ratna Kiruba

Unveiling the culture of child sexual abuse in Indian families

a young woman wearing a light blue surgical face mask rests her head on an empty oxygen tank
Gender

India’s Invisible Chains

by Christianez Ratna Kiruba

In India, women shoulder a disproportionate share of the caregiving burden