In a vast, multi-ethnic, multi-religious country like India, it is to be expected that we have several world-views operating at the same time in people's search for health and healing.

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

The drive for a rapid development in the education of women came largely from a perception summed up aptly in .the following statement by Mayhew: "women