Respected Chairpersons, Teachers and Colleagues, I thank the Indian Psychiatric Society forgiving me the opportunity and honor of delivering this year's Tilak Venkoba Rao Oration. The topic of today's oration is based on research done by my colleagues and me over the last several years. The canvas of the topic the interface of psychiatry and women's reproductive health is very wide. It encompas...

The great majority of these Orations have been delivered by men, but since 1995 the medical staff have to some extent redressed the balance albeit belatedly, and Professor, now Dame Ingrid Allen gave the Oration in 1995. Last ear Professor Jennifer Adgey gave the Millennium Oration. It gives me great pleasure to follow her as Orator and when I look down the list of previous Orators it makes me ...

abstract as literary texts have different layers, they are open to various political, social and cultural interpretations and readings. the main purpose of orators is to persuade their audience.thus, orators must be familiar with intra-textual factors (residing inside language) and situational factors (residing outside language), such as social, political, and cultural factors, in order to be a...

DURING the last two years of the Great War your president and I had to make our way to work every day through wards crowded with wounded men, the great majority of them suffering from a streptococcus infection of their wounds. And in 1918 in those same wards we saw dozens of men die from the deadly streptococcus pneumonia that so frequently followed influenza dutring the epidemic. The end of th...