Disha Shetty

Disha Shetty is an award-winning science journalist based in Pune. She writes on public health, climate change, women and development issues.

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Johnson & Johnson baby powder on sale in Kolkata in 2019. J & J only pulled its asbestos-laced talcum powders from the US market in 2020, after decades of advocacy. It did not withdraw them from global markets until 2023 – a full three years later.

Johnson & Johnson’s dark history in India and the United States

19 Oct 2025

Saima Wazed, the daughter of Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, at an autism awareness event at the UN Headquarters in New York in April 2016. Wazed’s nomination to the post of WHO-SEARO regional director has raised uncomfortable questions about potential nepotism and corruption.

Bangladesh’s murky games to get Saima Wazed to the WHO

27 Oct 2023

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