Updated On: 29 July, 2017 04:12 PM IST | Mumbai | Joanna Lobo
<p>Writer Sidin Vadukut talks about seeking inspiration from the Spanish flu, research involved in penning a medical thriller, and the perils of WhatsApp information</p>


Mumbai international airport are relevant to the plot
At the launch of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, author Amitav Ghosh spoke about how unprepared Mumbai is in the event of a natural calamity. He painted a bleak but detailed picture of the outcome - the inability of an already-burgeoning city to deal with the ensuing chaos. Sidin Vadukut's upcoming medical thriller, Bombay Fever (Simon & Schuster India), paints a similar picture. Except here, the calamity is a mysterious and contagious disease that spreads quickly and condemns patients to a gruesome death.