Jarshad NK

India is known as the ‘pharmacy of the world’. And not without reason. The pharmaceutical industry is one of India’s biggest success stories. It supplies one in every five generic medicines consumed globally and is one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers. Its reputation has been built, over the years, on precision, quality, scale, and, of course, people.

India’s nuclear sector is undergoing one of its biggest transformations, driven by policy reforms and technological advances.

A drum started up somewhere outside the window and Velchamy Sankarlingam broke off mid-answer to ask whether it was rain. It was a wedding band. Nobody who lives in Chennai has to think about that sound for even a second, and I told him a man from this city ought to know the difference. He left in 1988 and has lived in the US since, and though he comes back often enough, the place has stopped being one he can read. He had said as much a few minutes earlier.