Congratulations to the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

Congratulations on one hundred years of ophthalmic publishing.

It is a particular pleasure professionally and personally to be able to congratulate the British Journal of Ophthalmology on successfully reaching its 100 year anniversary. What a wonderful achievement. I first learnt about the Journal nearly 50 years ago at the very start of my career in ophthalmology. While the BMJ was called the BMJ, the BJO was The British Journal. I remember with great pri...

Anaesthesia and ophthalmic surgery.

Dear Editor, The first issue of the Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology was forwarded to me by one of my anaesthetist colleagues here in the UK. I thoroughly enjoyed reading 2 articles related to my specialty of anaesthesia. Both articles (Bhattarai 2009 and Tuladhar et al 2009) are of very high standard. They and you and the entire team should be congratulated for such a high quality journal. I ...

The Gender of the Addressee as a Factor in the Selection of Apology Strategies: The Case of Saudi and British

This paper was set out to investigate the main cultural differences between Saudi and British participants making apologies with a focus on the role of the gender of the addressee in the selection of apology strategies in gender-segregated vs. coed societies. Written questionnaires were used to collect data from 80 participants: 20 Saudi males, 20 Saudi females, 20 British males and 20 British ...

Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics

The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage to India is eloquent in rejecting British values and introducing Indian voices. This novel records a shift in attitude in terms of exposing the bitter realities about and attitudes of British imperialists. Des...

European ophthalmology from a British perspective.