Drums and Syringes Oxford University Press by Bhaskara II

by Bhaskara II

My experience has shown that a selection of Upanishads texts has a better chance of arousing students' interest in the enormously rich tradition of Vedic language and literature

- Swami Pratyagatmananda Saraswati in his Forword

following the system of Bartholomae

he often adopts or adapts current maxims

Drums and Syringes Oxford University Press by Bhaskara IIThe following account is based on twenty two months of fieldwork in Nepal, between January 1989 and March 1992. I am trained as a nurse and was one of the expatriates working with a British nongovernmental organization (the Britain Nepal Medical Trust; BNMT) which ran a health project in Eastern Nepal. The backbone of this was a TB control program covering eight hill districts. My position differed from the other expatriates in that I was seconded by