I am indeed overwhelmed by the honour you all have bestowed upon me for choosing me to deliver this prestigious oration doubly so for also having elected me to the highest office of the president of the society about a decade ago. I have chosen to speak on mental health programmes & legislation and take you through a journey from post– independence period to the current scenario in terms of tri...

It is a privilege to be invited to The Australian National University. ANU has had a long association with India. Sir John Crawford, one of your former Chancellors, played a key role in the 1960s in making the green revolution possible in India, and we are grateful for that. Few institutions around the world have a centre dedicated to research on South Asia. This University has set an example b...

TIERE is perhaps no literature dealing with specific disease addressed to the patient so voluminous as that on the subject of diabetes. This can probably be explained by the fact that there is no other disease in which the physician has to rely, to the same extent, upon self-treatment by the patient. Yet in spite of the plethora of books, this small volume, written by a certified dietitian, wil...

THIS Oration is given annually to welcome students to the Hospital. In the past, students spent the first two years of study at the University and often wondered when they would ever see a patient. Then they came to hospital and were welcomed at the annual oration. With the new curriculum, students have been in hospital already, but the welcome is no less genuine. I am going to address my remar...

Mr. Chairman, Respected Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel specially privileged to be selected for the First T I L A K O R A T I O N on Biological Psychiatry by the Indian Psychiatric Socic;y. I a m deeply aware of the honour and thank you all for the same. The present oration is devoted to young age in more than one way. I t is notable that a personal loss of the family of Prof. A. Venko...