Investigations

Before each book, there is a file.

Open research: timelines, document trails, named actors and what happened next. Updated as the reporting moves.

File 01 · 2001–2023 · Tamil Nadu

Kodaikanal mercury

A thermometer factory in a hill station. Mercury waste in the surrounding forest. Six hundred workers, fifteen years of litigation, an undisclosed settlement, and 290 tonnes of waste shipped back to the United States for permanent retirement.

Full file in preparation.

File 02 · 1802–2025 · India

Two centuries of the needle

India’s vaccination record assembled as one timeline: the first smallpox campaigns, the institutes built to make vaccines, the campaigns that reached villages before roads did, the resistance they met, and the manufacturing base that ended up supplying much of the world.

Full file in preparation.

File 03 · Ongoing

Who owns Indian healthcare

A running ledger of foreign private equity, institutional investor, pension fund and reinsurer positions across Indian hospital chains, pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics networks, device makers and health insurers.

Updated as deals are disclosed.