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Your hospital. Your doctor. Your diagnosis. All quietly owned by global capital.

India's healthcare system is being bought piece by piece hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players, diagnostic labs. The buyers are not Indian. And their bottom line is not your health.

In The Silent Syndicate, award-winning investigative journalist Ameer Shahul exposes how the behemoths of global finance have staged a silent takeover of India's most vital sector.

Inside this book:

  • How is big finance systematically acquiring Indian hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players and diagnostic labs?
  • Why do healthcare costs keep rising and who is really profiting?
  • How is India's regulatory framework failing to keep pace with foreign capital flows?
  • What is the philosophical shift that has moved the patient out of the centre of healthcare and replaced them with capital?
  • What does this mean for India's long-term healthcare sovereignty?

This book is for you if:

  • You have ever questioned why healthcare in India costs what it does
  • You follow Indian public policy, economics or investigative journalism
  • You work in healthcare, finance or public health
  • You believe access to healthcare is a right, not a commodity

Urgent, meticulously researched and impossible to ignore, The Silent Syndicate is essential reading for anyone who has wondered who is really running India's healthcare system and why.

About the Author

AMEER SHAHUL is an award-winning author, environmentalist, and public policy expert based in India. His debut book, Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal (2023), won the Green Literature Festival Book of the Year Award in 2024 and was longlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Best Nonfiction First Book in 2023. His second book, Vaccine Nation: How Immunization Shaped India, was shortlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2025.

Ameer's work explores the critical intersections of health, environment, and technology, often unearthing overlooked narratives with investigative depth and literary nuance. Before turning to writing full time in 2022, he held leadership roles at major global corporations and served as a healthcare consultant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He began his career in journalism with Reuters, AFP, and the Press Trust of India.2

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  • ISBN: 9789357314015
  • Author: Ameer Shahul
  • Publisher: Hachette India
  • Pages: 312
  • Format: Hardback
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Your hospital. Your doctor. Your diagnosis. All quietly owned by global capital.

India's healthcare system is being bought piece by piece hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players, diagnostic labs. The buyers are not Indian. And their bottom line is not your health.

In The Silent Syndicate, award-winning investigative journalist Ameer Shahul exposes how the behemoths of global finance have staged a silent takeover of India's most vital sector.

Inside this book:

  • How is big finance systematically acquiring Indian hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players and diagnostic labs?
  • Why do healthcare costs keep rising and who is really profiting?
  • How is India's regulatory framework failing to keep pace with foreign capital flows?
  • What is the philosophical shift that has moved the patient out of the centre of healthcare and replaced them with capital?
  • What does this mean for India's long-term healthcare sovereignty?

This book is for you if:

  • You have ever questioned why healthcare in India costs what it does
  • You follow Indian public policy, economics or investigative journalism
  • You work in healthcare, finance or public health
  • You believe access to healthcare is a right, not a commodity

Urgent, meticulously researched and impossible to ignore, The Silent Syndicate is essential reading for anyone who has wondered who is really running India's healthcare system and why.

About the Author

AMEER SHAHUL is an award-winning author, environmentalist, and public policy expert based in India. His debut book, Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal (2023), won the Green Literature Festival Book of the Year Award in 2024 and was longlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Best Nonfiction First Book in 2023. His second book, Vaccine Nation: How Immunization Shaped India, was shortlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2025.

Ameer's work explores the critical intersections of health, environment, and technology, often unearthing overlooked narratives with investigative depth and literary nuance. Before turning to writing full time in 2022, he held leadership roles at major global corporations and served as a healthcare consultant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He began his career in journalism with Reuters, AFP, and the Press Trust of India.2

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