Lieutenant General V.R. Raghavan was India’s Director General of Military Operations from 1992 to 1994. He is currently a Director at the Dehli Policy Group. Raghavan is the author of a number of books and articles, including India’s Search for Strategic Balance (Dehli Policy Group, 1996). This paper was written while the author was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and...

Author Affiliations: 1National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Cardiac Biochemistry, Cardio-Neuro Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; and 4North-East Regio...

BACKGROUND Although Ethiopia ranks seventh among the world's 22 high-burden tuberculosis (TB) countries, little is known about strain diversity and transmission. In this study, we present the first in-depth analysis of the population structure and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Northwest Ethiopia. METHODS In the present study, 244 M. tuberculosis isolates whe...

In this article, an attempt has been made to make a nuanced study of the images portrayed shaikh by Hamid Qalandar and his protagonist, Shaikh Nasiruddin, in malfuzat entitled Khairul Majalis. It highlights that willingly chose path faqr (poverty), faqa (deprivation/hunger) wanted renounce duniya wa khalq (world people), which resulted antipathy towards shughl (government service) state all its...