"Know Your Heart:The Hidden Links Between Your Body and The Politics of the State" is the latest book of New Delhi-based author and columnist, Dinesh C Sharma. The book explodes the myth that an individual alone is responsible for his or her sickness, particularly heart disease and the underlying conditions.

Unhealthy food, tobacco consumption and physical inactivity are among key risk factors for a number of non-communicable diseases. The book investigates into questions such as What lies behind consumption of unhealthy diets? Why are we becoming physically inactive? What’s contributing to the rise in tobacco consumption? The investigation has revealed shocking details - it is the Indian state which is fuelling these risk factors for heart disease a great extent.