New Delhi: During the hearing of the tragic rape and murder case involving a Kolkata doctor, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud evoked the harrowing 1973 Aruna Shanbaug case, underlining and ...

Directed by theatre director Arvind Gaur, the play is based on the book of the same name by Mumbai-based journalist and writer Pinki Virani, who had followed Shanbaug’s case since 1982 and filed ...

Shanbaug, remained in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) between November 27, 1973 and May 18, 2015. Her pitiable condition had triggered a massive debate on euthanasia. Pinki Virani, author of ...

Shanbaug has thus become an icon of the new debate on euthanasia, which, by the way, is a Greek word, meaning “good death” that is preferable to life. Her case has triggered a plea for active ...