Adolescents are the individuals between the ages of 10 and 19 years and the youth are those between the ages of 15 to 24 years. World Health Organisation has therefore defined young people as individuals between the age group of 10 to 24 years. In our country Adolescents comprise more than one fifth (22%) of the total population. Therefore Family Health Division, Ministry of Health, established...

suffer in order to create: hence these authors' lives of migraine, strain, nervous collapse, obsessional overwork, and resort occasionally to alcohol and narcotics but chiefly to medical drugs which they dedicated themselves to. As Professor Williams stresses, they were all "sick men", their true illness being their post-Romantic conception of the artist's role. But, second, Professor Williams ...

The European records of the origin of spectacles are very controversial. The suggestion that spectacles were first invented during the I 3th century in Italy by an unknown layman of Pisa is not convincing, because there are also references to spectacles in Hindu literature at about the same time. In the life of Vyasaraya (1446-1539), written in Sanskrit by his contemporary, the poet Somnath, th...

I T IS A GREAT HONOUR TO HAVE BEEN ASKED TO deliver the Ninth Annual George R. Daicoff Lecture. I met Dr Daicoff 18 years ago, when I first attended a meeting of the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society. He had been one of the sixteen pioneers of congenital cardiac surgery who had founded that organization many years earlier. Some of the earliest contributions of Dr Daicoff date back to an era wh...

Some years ago, I attended the Fez Sacred Music Festival. Arab music was fascinating. The rhythm, instruments, and cadences were often similar to Indian musical traditions am familiar with. However, this familiarity created a dissonance—instead of just enjoying music, kept trying understand words, an expectation don't have when listen Italian opera. Reading Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: Origins Our...

The main feature of Indian society, seen at its strongest in the rural areas, is caste. A caste is a collection of people who share similar cultural and religious values and practices. Members within a caste generally marry among themselves; intercaste marriages are a cultural taboo. These social regulations governing the institution of marriage have resulted in a substructuring of the Indian g...

Background:Menstruation period is a risk factor for various infections. Adolescents’ school girls are more vulnerable to infection. The study was carried out to assess the knowledge and practices about menstruation among adolescent girls in Kathmandu Valley. Methods: An FGD was conducted in the two private and public school of Samakhushi. New Himalayan higher secondary schooland Ranidevi School...

Urban theory, produced in North Atlantic centres, has been perpetrated as universal and recent urban studies have pointed to the limits of this calling for a Southern turn. The call is dislocate concentration power knowledge metropolis. Owing concentration, concerns metropolis often become (or are made become) periphery. Taking informality practice, not embedded people (marginalised) or places ...

Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro-American discourse. Yet formerly agro-pastoralist upwardly mobile Gaddi community Himalayan India, it by women with qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ indicate deeper disruption bodily humours, intimate relations, household materiality. This article takes tension, parti...