Deepti Chavan, 34, was diagnosed with tuberculosis when she was 16 and studying for her board exams. An X-ray confirmed it. But, months later, doctors found hers was a case of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. Her treatment, she recalls, was excruciating. While one drug made her suicidal, irritable and “lose her mind”, another ruined her complexion. In 2000 when she had the first surgery on her left lung, her parents had to fend off questions about who would marry her. Six years of treatment and two surgeries later, she has not. . .