Krishnakumar Kunnath, the singer popularly known as ‘KK’, age 53. Filmmaker Raj Kaushal, 49. Travel industry pioneer Ankur Bhatia, 48. Kannada actor-producer Puneeth Rajkumar, 46. Actor Sidharth Shukla, 40. Pankhuri Shrivastava, founder of rental startup Grabhouse, 32. Saurashtra cricketer Avi Barot, 29….
In that list of celebrities who died suddenly due to an unforeseen cardiac event in the recent past, all were quite young or on the right side of middle age. People dying of a heart attack is not news but the fact that they died with no obvious symptoms, like chest pain, and no visible vulnerabilities, is the new development. A recent study titled ‘Indian Hearts Lacking Care’, conducted by wellness company India Health Link in collaboration with social advocacy group HEAL Foundation, found that 53 per cent…
