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2. Materials Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation Limited (HBPCL), Maharashtra, India, made available the venoms of Indian cobra (CV), Common krait (KV), Russell’s viper (RV), and Saw scaled viper (EV) and ASVA. The venoms were distributed in small aliquots, lyophilized, and stored at -20o C. Adult male Swiss albino mice (18 - 20 g) and New Zealand white male rabbits (2.0 - 3.0 kg) were maintained at HBPCL, Maharashtra, India and used for experimentation. Complete Freund 's adjuvant (CFA),…

when women were not supposed do job, however my mother got one in one of the state government departments of Maharashtra state in India and started working when she was pregnant with me. She began her job only because she wanted me to be highly educated and hence by earning money she could pay the fees for my education in future. I was born in October,1988 in small village of Maharashtra (state), India. My education started when I was 3 years of age with nursery class followed by the lower…

patients by trainee doctors who were not equipped to handle those cases, organ donation rackets, inflating bills etc…. the list is too long for comfort. Media reports on responses from the fraternity included that of Dr Sagar Mundada, president, Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors. Speaking to Mr. Santosh Andhale of DNA newspaper, Mr. Mundada seemed to be deflecting the blame from doctors, he said: "This…

History happens all around us every single day. Everyday an eventful event has happened somewhere in the world. On September 30 an event that shaped the world happened, I was born. As I researched the exact day that I was born, I found many things that happened that I didn’t even know about but, only a few of those events interested me. One event that happened September 30 was a historical event that effects the world still today. On September 30, 1950 the united nation forces crossed the 38…

Jejuri poems are all about Arun Kolatkar visiting the temple town in the state of Maharashtra where 'every other stone is a god or his cousin'. The poems are delicately written yet sharply observed - a temple door, a yellow butterfly and Maruti himself find equal care given to them all in turn. Jejuri poems oscillate between faith and scepticism. In his plat and colloquial tone, Kolatkar ironically treats the parallel scenario reinforcing it with concrete imagery. Kolatkar's use of concrete…

Brandi Styn GEO 575 Review of Migration to urban centers of the Global Periphery Zhu’s China’s floating population and their intention in the cities: Beyond the Hukou reform, Dandekar’s Changing Migration Strategies in Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1885 – 1990, and MacDonald and Winklerprins’s Searching for a Better Life: Peri-Urban Migration in Western Para State, Brazil all wrote about migration to urban centers of the Global Periphery. Zhu wrote about three theories, first was the dual labor…

Scuba Diving in Tarkarli - Read before you dive By: Mansi Sharma Scuba diving is definitely the most interesting water sports of all time. It gives us the opportunity to explore the underwater species which we cannot see from outside. Ever wondered how do all those species we usually find on Discovery channel look like? Or how does it feel to really touch them or have a real look at them outside of the TV sets? This is what Scuba Diving offers; it gives you once in a lifetime experience which…

As each of us hear the word slum or read anywhere, a picture comes to our mind which is usually dilapidated, dirty, congested having narrow lanes etc. Scholars have extensively defined the concept of slum. Let us look at a few of them. Charles J Stokes in his article “A theory of slums” (1962) writes that in a slum, the housing and also the social activities or arrangements develop differently from that of the city. From this definition it can be said that slums are a part of a city yet it is…

and no one else was there to take care of me. My world was turned upside down.” A grief-stricken young girl, Pinky grabbed the only work she could in order to keep herself from dying of hunger: she became a domestic worker. She moved to Nasik, Maharashtra and grabbed work with the Rai family. Of all of her working experiences, Pinky says this was the worst of them all. She moved in with the Rai family and worked for almost 20 hours per day. She would get a meager salary of only 100 rupees a week…

the Dalit writers of modern day Maharashtra. The Dalit Panthers followed in the traditions that were set through anti-hegemonic writings in magazines such as Vidrohi, Magova, and Aamhi. (A.Contursi, Text and Practice in a Dalit Panther Community 325) By the 1970s, educated Dalit youth from…