When Sushma Swaraj, the telegenic and articulate Union health minister, announced in a room packed with TV cameramen a month back that she would seek the death penalty for those peddling fake drugs, it seemed a perfect climax for a theatre of the absurd.
The televised soap opera perhaps prompted the minister to borrow a dialogue from her predecessor, Shatrughan Sinha, who had called those who raked in profits from spurious drugs
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