#55 India's Life Expectancy with Aashish Gupta & Payal Hathi Co-host Aditi Priya

Опубликовано: 19 Сентябрь 2026
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Guest Profile

Aashish Gupta

Aashish Gupta is a demographer. He holds a Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in development studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.


Payal Hathi

Payal is a Ph.D. student in Demography and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Fellow at r.i.c.e. Her research interests center on social inequality and health.


Aditi Priya

Aditi Priya is the founder of Bahujan Economists and is an upcoming graduate student at Brown University.


Timestamps

3:30

Life journey of Aashish and Payal

16:15

Some eye-opening incidents

20:10

Research and challenges in explaining the work they do to friends & fa

32:53

Summarizing the sanitization work and is it connected to life expectancy.

42:45

Presence of caste in the indicators and other religions.

50:30

Sanitation workers and their struggles. The situation in government hospitals

1:00:10

Understanding the research on life expectancy

1:18:00

Hypothesis on why life expectancy is low in Dalits and Adivasis

1:38:00

Changes in life expectancy in each state

1:43:20

Response from academia