manvika

I love to read books, especially the non- fiction ones, as I am fascinated with the things that unravels facts, investigations and remains open for a debate. What I like about “The Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma” is that it’s fast paced, gripping, highly informational and had me on the edge of seat. Katherine Eban's beauty of connecting the dots is amazing and it got me question my own self. The ill foundation on which Singh Brother's Ranbaxy was built on, is shocking to hear and horrifying for the pharmaceutical industry.

Author, Dinesh Thakur (former senior employee of Ranbaxy) as a determined whistleblower and D S Brar (the former chairman), they all take us to places where deception and fraud are the norm. Be it Malvinder Singh’s misadventures with the AIDS medicine in Africa (where drug tests were faked) or Ranbaxy’s generic drug market in the USA (where inferior medicines were supplied), it has all been a revelation for me in the pharmaceutical sector of India.

Have you ever had a viral fever, where the pharmacy near you gives an alternate medicine to the prescribed one, ensuring you that it’s of the same salt? You use it for a several days, where it makes zero or almost no impact on your health and then when you see your health deteriorating, you end up getting the other drug and bang, you’re feeling better within a day.

Well, this is what happens when you take a drug which is untested, spurious — “The Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma” is certainly worth a read. So, if you like reading the books, or like to go through the harsh realities or the ones that rather remain undisclosed then this is the book for you. Highly recommended. The only con could be that it doesn’t explore the pharmacy industries in the other countries as USA, China, as they all have been falsifying their reports to mint money from the public.

I love to read books, especially the non- fiction ones, as I am fascinated with the things that unravels facts, investigations and remains open for a debate. What I like about “The Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma” is that it’s fast paced, gripping, highly informational and had me on the edge of seat. Katherine Eban's beauty of connecting the dots is amazing and it got me question my own self. The ill foundation on which Singh Brother's Ranbaxy was built on, is shocking to hear and horrifying for the pharmaceutical industry.

Author, Dinesh Thakur (former senior employee of Ranbaxy) as a determined whistleblower and D S Brar (the former chairman), they all take us to places where deception and fraud are the norm. Be it Malvinder Singh’s misadventures with the AIDS medicine in Africa (where drug tests were faked) or Ranbaxy’s generic drug market in the USA (where inferior medicines were supplied), it has all been a revelation for me in the pharmaceutical sector of India.

Have you ever had a viral fever, where the pharmacy near you gives an alternate medicine to the prescribed one, ensuring you that it’s of the same salt? You use it for a several days, where it makes zero or almost no impact on your health and then when you see your health deteriorating, you end up getting the other drug and bang, you’re feeling better within a day.

Well, this is what happens when you take a drug which is untested, spurious — “The Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma” is certainly worth a read. So, if you like reading the books, or like to go through the harsh realities or the ones that rather remain undisclosed then this is the book for you. Highly recommended. The only con could be that it doesn’t explore the pharmacy industries in the other countries as USA, China, as they all have been falsifying their reports to mint money from the public.