In a tragic news, it's been put in the public domain that Mr. John Mccain, Senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican nominee has been diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 80. That's how it should be in a democracy, where the health of any public figure should be common knowledge Instead, what we've got in India is a system of complete secrecy regarding any health issues or illness of its top leaders. We still don't know what's wrong with Sonia Gandhi that she keeps taking off to the U.S. for treatment at regular intervals. People in India have a right to know what is the true nature of her illness, whether it's cervical cancer, as some media reports have speculated or something else. She is in political life. She should not expect to be protected in a cocoon of mystique. Also, what does it tells us about the Indian media, when they are not good enough to ferret out the truth on their own.