Smriti Irani defies doctors

By Subhash K. Jha

Mumbai: Smriti Irani has recently returned to work after a long and serious illness - typhoid and dengue combined - because she just "couldn't afford a longer holiday".

Smriti, one of Indian television's biggest women icons, says she started getting high fever in the last week of October but she didn't take it seriously.

"I kept treating it as any viral fever until I went to Bhavnagar to perform my play. My fever shot up, and I returned to the hotel shivering. That's when doctors diagnosed with a dengue and typhoid combined. Even my illnesses are so grand," Smriti told IANS.

She was admitted into a hospital on Nov 4. After seven days of enforced rest in the hospital, Smriti returned home only to pull off the intravenous drips and get back to work.

"The doctors advised me a month of ...