01 · 2023 · Pan Macmillan
Heavy Metal
How a global corporation poisoned Kodaikanal. Fifteen years of litigation over a thermometer factory, 290 tonnes of mercury waste, and 600 poisoned workers.
Book of the Year 2024
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Investigative non-fiction · India
Four books on how power, money and health collide in India — reported from court records, factory floors and archives.
How big finance is quietly buying India’s healthcare.
Foreign private equity firms, pension funds and reinsurers now hold controlling positions across Indian hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics chains and health insurance. This book traces who owns what, what it has done to prices, and what it means for a country where most people pay for care out of pocket.
The books
01 · 2023 · Pan Macmillan
How a global corporation poisoned Kodaikanal. Fifteen years of litigation over a thermometer factory, 290 tonnes of mercury waste, and 600 poisoned workers.
Book of the Year 2024
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02 · 2025 · Pan Macmillan
How immunisation shaped India. Two centuries of vaccine research and vaccination, from the first smallpox campaigns to the pandemic.
03 · 2026 · Hachette
How big finance is destroying India’s healthcare. Foreign capital’s quiet takeover of hospitals, pharma, diagnostics and insurance.
Forthcoming
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04 · 2027 · HarperCollins
A hidden nexus in climate change in India. In progress.
In progress
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On the work
“A powerful book.”
Shashi Tharoor
“A must-read.”
Vandana Shiva
A crisp, cinematic account of corporate greed and the struggle for justice.
Indian Express
The files
Open research notes, timelines and document trails from work in progress and work already published.
File 01 · 2001–2023
A thermometer factory in a hill station, 290 tonnes of waste shipped back to the United States, and a settlement reached fifteen years later.
File 02 · 1802–2025
India’s vaccination story, assembled as a single timeline: the first arm-to-arm campaigns, the institutes, the resistance, the pandemic.
File 03 · Ongoing
A running ledger of foreign private equity, pension fund and reinsurer stakes across hospitals, pharma, diagnostics and insurance.
Speaking
Festivals, conferences, corporate audiences, universities and newsrooms. Keynote, panel, fireside or half-day workshop. English and Malayalam.
The list
Roughly monthly. Documents and findings, not opinions. First word on new books and dates.