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Behavioural Insights or Hindsight: A Call for Action to Transform Tomorrow
By The Insight Circle, 23rd November 2025 "A good man delights in receiving advice; all worst men are the most impatient of guidance" – Seneca On 25 September 2025, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, launched the National Blueprint for Behavioural Insights in Health with much fanfare. This landmark initiative signals a decisive shift away from conventional approaches to health management, embracing instead a preventive and behaviour
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
5 days ago3 min read
Our Shared Humanity, Bound in Pages
8th November 2025, by Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha It was 2014. I sat quietly, staring out the window of a suburban general practice clinic not far from the city. Outwardly, I maintained a calm, stoic demeanour. But beneath that thin veneer, my thoughts were anything but calm. The air felt charged—pensive, almost electric. I was grappling with a profound inner conflict, fueled by a growing disquiet about how conventional clinical practice was failing the very people it aim
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Nov 83 min read
Our Kids, Our Responsibility: The Mental-Health Fallout of Industrialized Parenting
By The Insight Circle, 22nd October 2025 “To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life” – Marvin Gaye Blood is on our hands The small infractions, the quiet moments of neglect, the times we chose to look away — they only return to haunt us. Just two weeks ago, the attempted murder of a five-year-old in Ohio and the stabbing at a Bandar Utama school laid bare how the lives of children can be irreversibly changed in a single hear
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Oct 225 min read
Bearing Witness or Bearing Burden in Gaza: Where Moral Theatre Ends and True Sacrifice Begins
By The Insight Circle, 10th October 2025 “Only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the horizon will find the right road.” — Dag Hammarskjöld...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Oct 106 min read
Healthcare Demolition Derby: Why Doctors in Malaysia Must Break the Hierarchy Wars and Reclaim Meaning
By The Insight Circle (28th September 2025) "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster" -...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Sep 286 min read
Complement, Not Compete: Softening the Mindset Blocking Psychologists in Healthcare
By The Insight Circle, 5th September 2025 "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life"- Ralph Waldo...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Sep 54 min read
The Grand Illusion of Care: Soul-Searching Amid a Culture of Bullying in Medicine
By The Insight Circle, 31st August 2025 “You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest.” - Zygmunt Bauman A...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 315 min read
The Obesity Fallacy: No More Games, We Need Real Solutions
By The Insight Circle, 25th August 2025 "When a cycle of a civilization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 245 min read
Beyond Firefighting: Rethinking Mental Health Strategies in Malaysia
By Dr. Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha, August 17th, 2025 "Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. No feeling is final." - Rainer...
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 173 min read
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