The Right to Repair. Glue, odd screws, and a private manual.
Front
The Right to Repair
Glue, odd screws, and a private manual
Whether a thing you bought can be opened, fixed, and kept working.
Back
Something fails and the choice is an expensive authorised repair or a replacement. Often that is a design decision: glued shells, odd screws, parts sold only to approved centres, manuals kept private. India opened a Right to Repair portal in 2022 to push makers of phones, appliances, cars, and tractors to publish repair information.
- Repairability is checkable before you buy. Look for a replaceable battery, standard screws, published manuals, and spare parts sold to anybody.
- The cheapest environmental act available is keeping a working thing working. A repaired phone avoids the entire mining, refining, and shipping chain of a new one.
Standard repairability research
Keep exploring
Because you read The Right to Repair.
The Quality Mark
What the stamp on the box promises
The certification marks on Indian products, and what each one covers.
Pharmacy of the World
One in five generic pills is made here
India's generic medicine industry, and what it changed for everyone.
The Complaint Ladder
Every industry has somebody above it
The order of escalation when a company will not fix its own mistake.