 | Jill McGivering BBC Asia analyst |
 In a country where many go hungry, anorexia is unknown to most |
But psychiatrists in urban areas are reporting cases of anorexia nervosa, the so-called slimming disease that can cause sufferers to starve themselves to death.
Most people in India have still not heard of the condition but Delhi psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh says he has seen an explosion in anorexia cases over the past few years.
He says a typical case could be a 17-year-old girl of around five feet six (1.68m) weighing just 4st 10lbs (30kg) who is convinced she is overweight.
"You can actually see her bones sticking out of her body," Dr Chugh says.
 For [the public], a person who's starving herself to death must be stupid  Dr Sanjay Chugh |
It must be very conflicting, when society tells you one thing and your mind tells you another. What parts of society do you think impacts most greatly how young women/men view their bodies? Would family have a benefiting factor or do you think that family would be more detrimental to those individuals health and body views?
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