In the 1930s, Brigadier Sinton, a highly decorated doctor of the British Indian Army, and a pioneer in the field of malaria control in India, said 'the very problem of survival in India seems to be that of malaria'. Almost 8 decades later, we seem to be no better! At the time of India's independence, malaria was responsible for an estimated 75 million cases and 0.8 million deaths annually.