K K Srivastava

POETRY and PSYCHIATRY

April 9, 2025

In physical illness, functional and structural integrity of body are the norms for being normal: gauged by scientifically laid down parameters. On a psychological plane, confusion and disagreement hail us as to what constitutes abnormal. Broad agreement exists on normal behaviour with reference to given culture: it caters to the...

A Non-Civil Servant as CAG

August 5, 2024

During 1983-84, in the library of the then Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS) Staff College, Shimla, I found Basil Chubb in his book, The Control of Public Expenditure, (I am roaming around a forty year old memory and hope it serves me right) describing Auditor General as ‘a lone...

Urgent need for expanded mental health facilities for all age groups

March 31, 2023

Mental health involves identification, prevention as well as assessment and treatment of persons suffering from mental health disturbances. The best way to judge the normality of behaviour of an individual is not only whether such behaviour finds acceptance by society, but also whether such a behaviour fosters the well-being of...

Evaluation of natural resources and quality of life

August 6, 2022

What are the concepts of quality of life, its ingredients and inclusion of natural resources as one of the major indices influencing it? At the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki in July 1988, Professors Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen organized a conference to deliberate upon issues like...

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