All women should have faith in their body’s ability to birth a baby naturally,” believes Nutan Pandit, a pioneer of natural childbirth in India, who runs a Lamaze programme for women in Delhi.

Ladies, get ready to breathe. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Smile. Go limp like a rag doll.” As Nutan Pandit’s voice dies down, 16 smiling faces look smugly at each other. In a sprawling room in ...

The paintings of Nutan Pandit, that will soon grace the walls of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, may generate hope among cancer sufferers. She is, after all a survivor of acute blood cancer.