Nona Walia

Is your hospital playing games with you? An unconscious patient billed for 52 litres of mineral water. A routine gallbladder surgery that cost nearly double the estimate. Two children who died of dengue, each billed ₹16 lakh, with consumables marked up 1,700%. These aren't anomalies. They are the system and its red flags. In this video, Abantika Ghosh pulls back the curtain on how, in many hospitals, billing has turned into a profit engine where management teams track every piece of equipment used in your surgery to maximise the invoice, where doctors have lost the discretion to protect you even if they want to, where the word "cancer" is deployed like a weapon to shut down questions, and where being insured is not a safety net but a signal to charge more. It's a warning sign for the red flags you need to watch out for. If you have encountered similar horror stories, let us know in the comments section.

Sad to read that the bust of Lutyens (my great grandfather) is to be removed from the presidential palace he designed in Delhi. Here I am with it last year. I wondered at the time why his name had been removed from the plinth.