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archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 19 Nov 2025 11:38:43 UTC All snapshots from host www.vox.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Skip to main content The homepage Explainers Politics Culture Advice Listen Watch MENU India’s drug industry saved the world once. Can it do it again? FUTURE PERFECT India’s drug industry saved the world once. Can it do it again? The “pharmacy of the world” needs to reinvent itself. by Pratik Pawar Nov 19, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC Mar Hernández for Vox Pratik Pawar is a fellow for Future Perfect. He reports on global health, science, and biomedicine, focusing on how policies and systems shape progress. The phone rang just before midnight. It was early February in 2001 in Mumbai, and Yusuf Hamied, a seasoned chemist at the Indian multinational pharma company Cipla, was at a dinner party. He picked up the phone anyway. A New York Times reporter was on the line, calling to check a rumor: Was Hamied r