Government must acknowledge public health issue extracting a growing toll
World Diabetes Day in Kolkata in 2014: 101 million Indians are living with diabetes and another 136 million have elevated blood sugar levels that could put them on the path to diabetes. © AP
Puja Changoiwala is the Mumbai-based author of the novel "Homebound" and the nonfiction books "Gangster on the Run" and "The Front Page Murders."
Growing up in Mumbai, I was quite overweight. No one, including me, recognized that my obesity might be a disease.
