Great Neurosurgeon of India – Prof. Des Raj Gulati

An Interview with Prof Raj Nambiar.

PC: The Academy of Medicine was established during a very different time. How far do you think it has fulfilled its original aims? Moving forward, what do you think would be the continuing role of the Academy? RN: When it was established in the 1950s, the Academy’s main aims were to advance postgraduate medical education, research and promote high standards for professional and ethical practice...

Jacob Chandy: pioneering neurosurgeon of India.

Jacob Chandy, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 97, was born into a deeply religious Christian family in Kerala, South India. After obtaining his medical education at the Madras Medical College, Madras, he serendipitously came to work with Dr Paul Harrison, a renowned medical missionary, in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Harrison urged Chandy to pursue training in the fledgling specialty of neu...

Prof. Dr. Aroldo Miniti – A Great Master

Medicine is truly a unique art and is undoubtedly the synthesis of a triple humanizing and ethical role, translated as personally helping older colleagues perform a therapeutic act and teaching younger ones to do the same. People who know Professor Aroldo (►Fig. 1) will aver that he was the embodiment of that maxim. Born on December 29, 1935, in São Paulo, Brazil, he pursued his studies at the ...

British Raj: The Legacy of Colonialism in India

Panchayati Raj and Watershed Management in India: Constraints and Opportunities

Acknowledgements This report is based largely on interviews with representatives from the Government, Panchayati Raj Institutions, NGOs, Self-help Groups and Academic Institutions. I would like to thank all of the respondents for the generous amounts of time they spared to discuss their experiences of Panchayati Raj and Watershed Development with me. I would like to thank Ashok Kumar of Develop...