Partha Kar: Rebalancing society’s perceptions

Partha Banerjea

Dr Partha Banerjea is a consultant adolescent psychiatrist, running a high-risk, high-impact adolescent service at the Maudsley Hospital in South London. He is lead clinician for Southwark Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has a keen interest in how to train future psychiatrists and interdisciplinary ide...

Prevalence of yaws on Kar Kar Island, New Guinea.

The International Biological Programme has as one of its objectives the study of man's adaptation to his environment. With this in view the Australian Government, the Australian Academy of Science, and the Royal Society of England combined in a multi-disciplinary study of the population of Kar Kar Island, New Guinea. The organization of the projects studied and the field work were under the dir...

QnAs with Partha Dasgupta.

Back in the early 1970s, Partha Dasgupta realized that the economic models of the time were neglecting an entire class of capital assets: natural resources. Over the course of his career, Dasgupta, an economist at the University of Cambridge and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, has worked to put “natural capital” on an equal footing with other capital assets, exploring h...

Partha Kanuparthy - Dissertation

Rajarshi Kar

For sports performance, physical skills, physical fitness and mental skills are the building blocks. These are the main requirements of the complete athlete that produce outstanding sports performances. At top level of sport, where many athletes have equal physical ability, the difference between a great performance and a good performance or between winning and losing is often related to mental...