drugs

Secrets of Starvation

Hartosh Singh Bal

Researchers soon hope to find drugs that mimic the anti-ageing and anti-cancer impacts of low-cal diets.

Blood Flower

Journalist Gretchen Peters follows the drug and terror money flowing out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UAE and finds Dawood Ibrahim at the heart of it. An extract from her book

Subcontinental Drift

Rahul Jayaram

Is your dominant image of Bangladesh floods and immigrants? Well, here’s another one from Shazia Omar’s debut novel: youth and drugs

Burning Cash to Bust Those Blocks

Ninad D. Sheth

The Indian pharma gameplan appears more like irrational overreach and less like an achievement

Brotherhood of Urchins

Shubhangi Swarup

On the streets, boys survive on a powerful code of absolute friendship. They become one, a swarm, a super organism that sometimes gapes through your car window