This paper studies early childhood health in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, focusing on inequalities in anthropometric outcomes by religious adherence. India and Nepal have Hindu majorities, while Bangladesh is predominantly Muslim. Results confirm a relative Muslim advantage for children less than 12 months of age in height-for-age and weight-for-age z scores primarily in India, possibly reflect...

Kumar U, Joshi AK, Kumar S, Chand R and Röder MS Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 India; Department of Biotechnology, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India; Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu Univers...

Gender inequalities in educational attainment have attracted considerable attention and this article aims to contribute to our understanding of young women's access to higher education. The article is based on our in-depth interviews with 26 Hindu and Muslim young women attending colleges in urban Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), south India, and explores the barriers they confronted in fulfilli...

2015 Vol 7 No 1 South Afr J Gynaecol Oncol Nandi M, MBBS, MD, Junior Consultant Department of Radiation Oncology, Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital, Kolkata, India Mandal A, MSc(Phy), DipRP, PhD, Radiological Physicist Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India Asthana AK, MBBS, MD(Radiotherapy), Professor Rad...

To the Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sin,?Some years ago, in the Calcutta Zoological Gardens. I noticed some men collecting the urine voided by one of the rhinos, and measuring it out in bottles. On enquiry from Mr. Sanyal, the resident manager, I was informed that the rhino's urine was in great demaud for the treatment of enlarged spleen and chronic fever, and that its sale contributed an...

Correction Ravindra N. Kharwar was inadvertently omitted from the author list of this article [1]. The correct author list is displayed above. The Acknowledgement is also amended as follows: This work is part of the PhD thesis of VCV, and was financially supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-09/013(205)/2008/EMR-I, dt.2809-2008), New Delhi India. Authors are thank...