By Dr David B. Agus

Rs 599

Normally, I don’t expect a book about illness to cheer me up. But The End of Illness by Dr David Agus, one of the world’s leading oncologists and medical thinkers, was thought-provoking and hugely reassuring. In his book, Agus explores how we may possibly live longer by ignoring what we have been taught about health.

Inequality is back in from the cold, and becoming a hot issue in the development discourse around the world.

Does adversity work to one’s advantage? Shakespeare saw its sweet uses.

Fat and fabulous — that is how I would describe The Emperor of All Maladies. At 470 pages (excluding the acknowledgements, notes, glossary etc), this “Biography of Cancer” is certainly not easy, light-hearted, bedside reading. But even those who pick it up with trepidation, like this reviewer, soon join author Siddhartha Mukherjee in

One year ago, if you had uttered the words “Dongria Kondh”at a dinner table, only anthropologists and human rights activists would have lit up. Most others would have reacted with blank stares.

As a resident of New Delhi, I am not happy that bacteria reportedly impervious to almost all types of modern antibiotics now evoke images of my city.

As a resident of New Delhi, I am not happy that bacteria reportedly impervious to almost all types of modern antibiotics now evoke images of my city.

As India relives the horror of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in the wake of the June 7 court verdict, a Canadian scientist of Indian origin has squarely blamed Union Carbide for not alerting the public