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THE MAGAZINE June 19, 2017
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  • Doctors And Their Devices
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    Doctors And Their Devices
    Imported medical devices are often indispensable. But 1,000 % mark-ups in prices? Hospitals, traders and doctors are playing a fast, smooth game, pushing patients towards financial ruin. Will the government ever wake up to these immoral medical practices?
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Lola Nayar
  • Cheaper Stents Make No Hearty Dent
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    Cheaper Stents Make No Hearty Dent
    Hospitals are hiking other charges to maintain profits, offsetting lower stent prices
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Lola Nayar Arushi Bedi
  • Seeing The World Through Indian Lenses
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    Seeing The World Through Indian Lenses
    Indian-made medical devices can hit foreign firms’ market, end the mark-up regime. The neglected sector needs a vigorous push.
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Lola Nayar
  • Popping The Right Pill?
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    Popping The Right Pill?
    After controlling stent prices, the Modi government is preparing to take on expensive branded drugs with generic medicine stores across India
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Zia Haq
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  • Trysts Under The Deodars
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    Trysts Under The Deodars
    A stolidly varied ‘Indian’ background, swirling passions in liberal Mussoorie, his parents’ courtship, his prompt arrival and Granny’s house—snatches from an old foxtrot
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Ruskin Bond
  • On Blackened Marblestones
    Review
    On Blackened Marblestones
    Zahir Dehlvi isn’t a very reliable narrator, but his memoir describes the Mutiny in Delhi vividly. This is a loose translation of an important source.
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Irfan Habib
  • Behind The Golden Boughs
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    Behind The Golden Boughs
    Paleo-biologist Hope Jahren is at hand to show the wonder that is a tree. Among the thick foliage hangs the story of her struggle as a scientist.
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Shobhit Mahajan
  • Waist-Deep Mud At The Somme
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    Waist-Deep Mud At The Somme
    Edouard Louis’s brutalising in his rough, provincial France has a direct connect to its right-wing rage. This is not charmingly evocative, but clinical.
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Nandini Lal
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  • Bhojpuri Diary
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    Bhojpuri Diary
    A Bahubali for Bhojpuri cinema? Not a bad idea, thinks actor Ravi Kishan...
    Jun 08, 2017
    | Ravi Kishan
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    Deep Throat
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    Jun 08, 2017
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    The Subcontinental Menu
    Get all the juicy gossip from the neighbourhood...
    Jun 09, 2017
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