Background: Miraa, qat, chat, cat, ghat or khat (Catha edulis), is a shrub indigenous to Eastern Africa and Arabic countries. It is cultivated in most Africa countries. Chewed miraa has sympathomimetic and euphoric effects and its chewing is a popular habit among some populations in Kenya. Habitual miraa chewing has been associated with oral lesions including oral cancer. It has also been assoc...

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Monsoon onset is highly variable year-to-year and difficult to predict. Here, Doppler radar data shed light on convective development in the days weeks around 2016 monsoon at multiple sites across India. We consider this with relation large-scale dynamic thermodynamic changes associated onset. The timing of South Asian summer (hereafter referred as monsoon) notoriously forecast (e.g. Rao et al....

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

S & EXTRACTS. DIPHTHERIA & CROUP IN INDIA. By Norman Chevers, c.i.e., m d. He who would hope to throw a clear light upon the nature of the disease or diseases which, early in my career, usee to he placed under these designations, ought to be an antiquarian as well as a pathologist. In this enquiry, it is to be asked, (i) How far these diseases used to be accurately dift'erentiited forty years a...