Even after crashing into a Banglore State Transport bus and ending up in a hospital bed, Poorva Pandit is nothing if not highly alert, her sensed darting from the extremely good-looking, amber-eyed doctor to the hushed case of the malformed, stillborn foetus. Her journalistic instincts tell her something is wrong when she discovers the incredibly high stakes involved in the race to produce the ultimate contraceptive. She knows she can't stop now.The story moves through Bangalore city with its booming pharmaceutical industry to the rribal settlements in MR Hills where the unsuspecting members of the Baniga tribe are the guinea pigs and, finally, to the rarefied world of medical research in New York. Sharp, incisive and thoroughly enjoyable, Stillborn is a fast-paced medical thriller with a roller-coaster of a storyline from start to finish.