This book reveals the kind face of cancer. For several decades now, a cabal of cancer specialists, cancer societies and research centres has successfully nursed and sustained public fears about cancer. The search for cancer cures is -linked with so much business, profit and commerce that responsible journals are known to cure cancer every week even while cancer research in turn discovers newer and newer cancer-causing agents everyday: the list of cancerogens now stretches from smoking to sex and sunshine.

The first to prick this bubble of deceit were two brilliant professors of anatomy, Manu Kothari and Lopa Mehta, from Mumbai. Their iconoclastic discoveries, first published in 1973 in their 900 page work, The Nature of Cancer, are now available in a condensed form in the present book. “Cancer Ka Shant Swarup” (Translated from original The Other Face of Cancer) is bound to raise the hackles of those who...