A Crown of Thorns: The Coronavirus and Us
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Kalpish Ratna
The surgeons Ishrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan, who write together as Kalpish Ratna, draw on their studies of pandemics to take a long view of COVID-19. Their book dispels many of the myths surrounding it and places the pandemic in the context of diseases that have sprung up as a result of human encroachments on forests.
Context, Westland, Rs 399, 272 pages
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