TravelKhana, an online food supply start-up catering to train-travellers, is in talks with venture capitalists and private investors to raise funds for scaling up operations.
Rapid urbanisation will spur strong demand, says Berger Paints India CEO Rapid urbanisation will spur strong demand, says Berger Paints India CEO Undergoing a series of ownership changes since 1923, ...Berger Paints has come a long way, emerging as the India's second largest paint company. ...the housing sector and its allied activities such as the paint industry should also do well as the affordability factor improves.
After a spell of flat topline and depressed bottomline a decade ago, the company, which owns the iconic brand, bounced back improving its footwear collection, upgrading its manufacturing facilities ...and opening new large format retail outlets while shutting down unviable ones. Bata has a strong footprint of over 1,400 stores in the country, and the plan is to make the brand even more accessible to its customers by opening more number of outlets.
This study was conducted in the child psychiatry unit of a tertiary psychiatric hospital. 60 patients diagnosed to have mental retardation according to ICD-10 (WHO, 1992) criteria constituted the ...study sample. A psychiatric disorder was present in 56.17% of the cases, and a medical disease was present in 35.0%. Only 13.3% cases had both a psychiatric as well as medical illness. Patients with a psychiatric illness were found to have a lesser degree of retardation. The commonest psychiatric disorder observed was behavioural and emotional disorders, while the commonest medical illness found was epilepsy. Patients with a medical illness were found to have a negative family history for a mental illness, and were much younger at the first consultation compared to the patients with a psychiatric illness. The above findings have been discussed, with emphasis on issues like dual diagnosis and diagnostic overshadowing.
Since 1975, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has lived in New York, publishing In Search of Love and Beauty, Three Continents, Poet and Dancer, and Shards of Memory, in this period. However, although she has ...left her twenty-five years in India behind, she retains her original interest in the theme of the guru or spiritual mentor. Each New York novel has a guru-like figure who offers mentoring. They are Leo Kellermann, the Rawul, Hugo Manarr, and the Master. The first three are either misguided or false. Kellermann is well-intentioned but loves women and dies in an accident chasing a disciple. The Rawul, a displaced prince from a Kingdom that post-Independence India has declared obsolete, is educated in England but has political ambitions in India. He allows his disciples to raise funds and allows his primary assistant Crishi to influence the wealthy young Wishwell twins. Manarr is an internationally trained psychoanalyst who heals women already healthy. He wants to uplift them spiritually and calls them Valkyries. He wants them fit initially in order to go through his rigorous training and forgets his vow to heal the sick. The outcome is tragic. Kellermann dies, and his disciples do not grow. The Rawul's fund-raiser Crishi cremates Michael Wishwell who dies in a fight, and forces Harriet Wishwell to forge Michael's signature and donate their estate to the Rawul's Movement. Hugo's wife, his daughter, and his niece commit suicide. Only in Shards of Memory, the latest novel, is a guru-figure capable of true spiritual guidance. Henry and his family all grow morally and ethically and do good work, Henry even editing the Master's papers because he believes there is substance there. Henry's relatives believe he is the Master's successor. He renounces Vera, the woman who lightens his days, because Vera is a disbeliever. This work looks at the mentors and mentoring portrayed in these four novels, looking for a pattern to the way they are created and proposes and demonstrates that for Jhabvala, novel-writing is a spiritual journey from a sense of bleakness about life to a sense of accommodation and joy.
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