of folklore. The paper envisages looking at protection of folklore in India from unauthorised infringement. The efforts made by various regulating bodies and government of India are evaluated to find out their efficacy and sufficiency to protect the knowledge and benefit the society. As an outcome

’ as unrighteous or inferior. Water, as a source of life, figures prominently in expressive culturesaround the world, more so in tropical countries like India. Being one among the five sacred elements of the Universe, water is personified and venerated as goddess Ganga in the Indian pantheon1. In other words

variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed. According to Indian folklore, there were once six blind men who had heard of the animal called

of this isolation and deprivation is varna and caste system prevalent in Indian society. The general people have been given an innocent understanding that this caste system has been created by God. As a result, in the name of God, (who is an unquestionable character), His creation will be appreciated and accepted

Methanolic extracts of two Indian medicinal plants Citrullus colocynthis, and Citrus medica, were examined for their antimicrobial potential against selected bacteria and fungi. The purpose of screening is to justify and authenticate the use of Indian medicinal plants in ethno medicinal or folklore

The patient is a 55-year-old woman with locally recur-rent breast cancer presenting with an unusual pattern of recurrence. At our facility, this patient would be seen by practitioners working collaboratively at both the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center (within the UCSF Cancer Center). These centers are located at the Mount Zion Hospital campus of the University of California–San Francisco in San Francisco, Califor-nia. The architecture of both centers is specifically designed to facilitate healing through the use of natu-ral elements such as wood, water, color, sound, and natural light. Examples include the use of water foun-tains, flowers, healing gardens, wood examination tables and cabinetry, feng shui design, and, equally

, for the upliftment of company as well as an Indian economy. Keywords:

within the prevailing scholarship on Indian women’s powers and voices. For testimony to South Asian women’s expressive oral performances as commentary, subversion, and

for cultural and social counter moves of counter-power, and unavowed wishes of dissent or discontent.’ This is a methodological essay submitted in continuation of my first study,previously published in the Indian Folklore Research Journal (Vol. 1, 2001: 81-122). In this article I wish to be explicite, though

Asystasia gangetica (Linn) T.Anderson belonging to the family Acanthaceae is an ornamental plant and used as a vegetable in times of food scarcity. It is having many medicinal properties and is used in folklore medicine for various ailments like asthma, rheumatism, swellings etc. The whole plant