BOOK REVIEW: The Truth Pill (The Myth of Drug Regulation in India)

By Dinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy. Simon & Shuster India, hard cover. 512pp, Rs899

By: Majid Maqbool

The question of how safe and effective are drugs manufactured in India should be a critical public health issue both in the country and internationally as cheap products are increasingly sold across the world, particularly in Africa. Yet, it isn’t as successive government have over the years have failed to improve the quality and mechan…