Two doctors argue that eggs are the gold standard for all proteins, and the most perfect food ever

An excerpt from ‘Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right’, by Kalpish Ratna.

Kalpish Ratna

· Feb 06, 2023 · 11:30 am

No trees: What the landscapes where all recent pandemics originated have in common

We failed to prevent the coronavirus pandemic because we failed to recognise a truth that stares us in the face.

Kalpish Ratna

· Oct 06, 2020 · 08:30 am

How I wrote the pandemic. Not the current one, but the one in Bombay over 100 years ago

Kalpish Ratna on the writing of ‘Room 000’, the book set during the Bombay Plague of 1896.

Kalpish Ratna

· Sep 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Two women on different continents lose babies to microcephaly. Were both cases of Zika?

‘The Secret Life of Zika Virus’ traces what we know about a virus that causes minor illness in adults but horrendous malformations in babies.

Kalpish Ratna

· Aug 05, 2017 · 02:30 pm

The chilling discovery: when the plague came to Bombay in 1896

An exclusive excerpt from a book that casts a Holmesian look at the forgotten truths of the Bombay Plague of 1896.

Kalpish Ratna

· Dec 11, 2014 · 03:30 am

19th-century Mumbai plague may offer clues in dealing with Ebola

Isolation, segregation, quarantine? The city saw it all in 1896.

Kalpish Ratna

· Oct 21, 2014 · 03:30 am