Ajai R. Singh

Some two decades ago, I was travelling in a bus for a conducted tour of some scenic spot for which organizers of annual conferences of psychiatrists take delegates. Sitting with me was the area manager of the pharmaceutical concern that, if my memory serves me right, had sponsored the tour. As the bus journey took

“It has been said that there are two aspects of education, both necessary. One regards the individual human mind more as a vessel, of varying capacity, into which is to be poured as much as it will hold of the knowledge and experience by which human society lives and moves. This is the Martha of

We continue the Academia-Industry Symposium with this issue. Jerome P. Kassirer, Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, writes an editorial: ‘Extent And Implications Of The Academia-Industry Connection’ (p1-6). Joel Lexchin, Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University, writes another editorial: ‘Of Money And Trust In

In the hot sultry fiasco of dampenthusiasmsand silver rays in gloomyarchives,narcosis and the feelingof melting ice on frozen palms. Arborescent shadows of sorrowin reminiscent silhouettesthe rain soaked eveningof pouring emotionsand grassy long walks on drippingpavementsSeeking out each other. Remember, my dearthe sweet faint lavenderin the cleft of your breastshidden from the present andposterityand the knowledge

Tonight at a classical dance recitalsymbolizing the eternal quest of the soul-force for GodI too raised for myself some questionsAs I saw the dancer adopt body twistedbeautifully gymnastic postureslike a question mark put before me– who am I? Am I the inquisitive streetwalker listening at pavementsto snake charmers’ aphrodisiac calls,watching indolently as the fast cycling

Interested poets may send their work for consideration. They may be in verse, but preferably in blank verse. A four-line write up on the poet with a photograph must accompany every submission. You may submit not more than three poems at one time. While there cannot really be a restriction of any nature as to

We start a new series with this issue. The Looking Glass will depict how others look at medical practice, its practitioners, mental health workers and philosophers. It will also reflect on happenings in the world of Medicine and Science. We start with Medical Journals. The CMAJ… The date: Feb 20, 2006. Medical publishing was rocked by

We want to share a happy development with you. On March 15, 2005, we set up the Mensanamonographs E-group. Within a span of two months, it had already crossed the half-century mark. It now has a seventy plus membership from all over India, and a number of oversees members too. Some prominent mental health specialists,