India announces Padma Shri awards for 45 individuals, recognizing 'unsung heroes' like a former bus conductor who created the world's largest free library and a pediatrician who established Asia's first human milk bank.
Patients who followed Yoga and a strict diet lost upto 15 kg and 95 per cent of them reported their blood pressure levels reaching normal levels. Those who followed aerobics lost only up to 8 kg and only 25 per cent of them got their BP to normal.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
