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The Doon Boom
The city that houses Doon School is now playing host to a whole array of new education barons–with big money and bigger ambitions. Some weeks ago, a Gurgaon-based businessman walked into the office of Upendra Arora, proprietor of the Natraj Bookshop on Dehradun’s popular Rajpur Road. The visitor was planning to set up an “international-class school [...]
Continue reading...A Shot in the Arm for Alternative Medicine
12. October 2008
In a quiet government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information. These doctors are practitioners of ayurveda, unani and siddha, ancient Indian medical systems that date back thousands of years. One of them is Jaya Saklani Kala, a young ayurveda doctor, who [...]
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21. October 2008
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