Yoga and diabetes.

It is proper that I should be delivering this presidential address at Hyderabad in this hall dedicated to the memory of Prof. S. Venkateshwara Rao himself, a Diabetologist, my old Teacher and Chief who initiated me into the field of diabetes about sixteen years back and encouraged me to pursue it. I remember having presented my l st paper "Microangiopathy in Diabetes", in the 1969 A.P.I. Conference at Hyderabad. Since then we have been doing lot of work in this field and have presented our data from time to time. I am also doubly pleased to have Prof. B. K. Naik in the audience, under whom 1 had my postgraduate training, who has been a constant source of encouragement and guidance to me.