Varma, a one-time correspondent for Cricinfo, quit to set up his own website, indiauncut.com and through it, and his weekly columns for The Mint on Thursdays, has been at the cutting edge of commentary on the issues of the day.
An International Policy Network report in 2010 found that seven per cent of drugs bought from wholesale traders were substandard, and 3.6 per cent of the drugs from traders contained no active ingredient whatsoever.