Obesity has become too big a problem for India to ignore

Government must acknowledge public health issue extracting a growing toll

Puja Changoiwala

June 14, 2024 05:05 JST

Puja Changoiwala is the Mumbai-based author of the novel "Homebound" and the nonfiction books "Gangster on the Run" and "The Front Page Murders."

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