By deifying Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, India appears to have forgotten outstanding activists like Medha Patkar and Sunderlal Bahuguna, who have a long and stirring track record.
"Considering the number of patients who are aging and how many more we are going to see, we have to look for the barriers this population encounters and what we can do to help them overcome them, " says lead author Medha Munshi, who served on the consensus panel and heads Joslin's Geriatric Diabetes Clinic.