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| Doctor at large: Aradeep Chatterjee (right)
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Twenty-one-year-old Aradeep Chatterjee, a homeopathic student of P.C.M. Homeopathic College, Calcutta, is the first medical student from India to have successfully performed the Best Case Series (BCS) programme.
The programme is conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) which is under the National Institutes of Health in the US. The Best Case Series is meant to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through alternative medicine.
Aradeep has now been invited to join the Advisory Panel Review of Cancer Therapy Evaluation Programme of the Drug Development Group to be held on October 31, 2005, in Maryland.
?I have to make a presentation on the research I have conducted based on the diagnosis of 25 cancer patients,? he says. If Aradeep?s presentation goes down well with the panel, the NCI will undertake a project to develop homeopathic cancer treatment through Psorinum therapy.
BERHAMPORE
Science and celebrations
On June 19, the Grant Hall of Berhampore played host to a science workshop to mark the centenary of Albert Einstein?s Theory of Relativity and also to celebrate the International Year of Physics, 2005. The workshop was organised by Bigyan Bhavana and a large number of students from various schools and colleges in Berhampore took part.
The experiments held at the workshop familiarised students with the amazing world of science. An attempt was also made to make youngsters aware of how science can be used to perform tricks and ?magic?.
Then there was a quiz competition. The topic was obviously ?physics?. The function came to an end with some speeches on the life and works of Einstein.
Rizwana Kamal, Class X, Mary Immaculate School
SILCHAR
Rotary fest
Recently, the Rotaract club of Assam University celebrated their charter presentation by organising ?Rotafest?. This was the first time in the history of the university that a fashion show was held. And that too with three unique rounds ? Peace round, Be a Vegetarian round and Brides of India round.
As if all this was not enough, the out-of-this-world performance by India Shining, the new band from the Barak valley, set the audience on fire.
Ashim Bhattacharjee, fourth semester, department of mass communication, Assam Central University, Silchar
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