Arvind R. Mehta

The science, policy and business behind India’s pharmaceutical rise.

Arvind R. Mehta is an Indian business journalist and former pharmaceutical-industry analyst who has covered the country’s generic-drug sector from Mumbai and Hyderabad for over a decade. He has a chemist’s respect for the science of reverse-engineering a molecule and a policy wonk’s fascination with the patent law that made it legal. He writes about India’s rise as “the pharmacy of the world” as both a public-health triumph and an industry with documented quality-control scars.