Thank you to the FMES Managing Committee, the working editors of IJME and the core organising team of the 10th National Bioethics Conference, for felicitating me for the work I have been doing. I am overwhelmed by your gesture! I am just one of the scores of health activists in India trying to raise issues from a pro-people perspective in health and healthcare, and to forge a humane and ethical alternative to the dominant Indian healthcare system. I consider this as a felicitation of the spirit and the work being done by this community of activists. It is in this spirit that I humbly accept this honour. I was able to give more time to this work, thanks to my wife, Sandhya, who has been the family breadwinner.