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Why Indira Gandhi Sent Gayatri Devi, World’s Most Beautiful Maharani, to Tihar Jail?
“Tihar Jail was like a fish market. Filled with petty thieves and prostitutes screaming.” This was witnessed back in July 1975, when a Maharani, who had appeared on lists of the world’s most beautiful women, was inside India's most infamous prison. Draped in a chiffon saree and her trademark pearl necklace, this Maharani was none other than the Rajmata of Jaipur, Maharani Gayatri Devi, who found herself in the smelly Tihar prison, surrounded by criminals & lunatics. But why?
Annals On Call - Alzheimer Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge
Your browser does not support this audio. . Annals On Call - Alzheimer Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge: Dr. Centor discusses the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease with Dr. Gayatri Devi. In this episode of Annals On Call, Dr. Centor discusses the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease with Dr. Gayatri Devi. Annals articles discussed include... About Annals On Call Annals On Call focuses on a clinically influential article published in .
Rape By Proxy Hire: Condoning Dileep’s Criminal Culpability In The 2017 Kerala Rape Case
Trigger Warning: References to rape, gang rape, and rape videos The full judgement is not released to the public yet, but the recent acquittal of the popular Malayalam commercial film actor Dileep charged with alleged criminal conspiracy to abduct, rape, and videotape the rape of a prominent fellow woman actor in the Kerala film industry in February 2017 appears to legally sanction both rape as revenge and the making and circulation of the rape video.
A Life of Empathy for the Natural World
Jane Goodall, the celebrated British primatologist, conservationist and activist, died of natural causes on October 1, 2025, while on a speaking tour in California. She was 91.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Casteist Speech At Kerala Film Policy Conclave Interrupted; Faces Backlash From Dalit Filmmakers
The two-day Kerala Film Policy Conclave hosted by the Kerala state government on August 2-3 to brainstorm regulatory policies for the state’s film industry ended in a fiasco when veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan criticised the government incentive programmes for filmmakers from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) and women filmmakers. Gopalakrishnan’s remarks drew instant censure from Malayalam musician and composer Pushpavathi Poypadathu.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Casteist Speech At Kerala Film Policy Conclave Interrupted; Faces Backlash From Dalit Filmmakers
The two-day Kerala Film Policy Conclave hosted by the Kerala state government on August 2-3 to brainstorm regulatory policies for the state’s film industry ended in a fiasco when veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan criticised the government incentive programmes for filmmakers from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) and women filmmakers. Gopalakrishnan’s remarks drew instant censure from Malayalam musician and composer Pushpavathi Poypadathu.
Managing Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 9 Published on: , Panelists discuss how amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, including brain swelling and bleeding, can occur in patients receiving monoclonal antibody therapies for Alzheimer disease, necessitating careful monitoring through MRI scans, dose adjustments, and supportive care to manage risks—particularly in individuals with genetic risk factors—while ongoing research seeks safer, more effective...
Treatment Options and Disease-Modifying Therapies in Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 8 Published on: , Panelists discuss how current Alzheimer treatments combine pharmacologic options like cholinesterase inhibitors, NMDA antagonists, and recently approved monoclonal antibodies with nonpharmacologic strategies such as lifestyle modifications, cognitive engagement, and managing comorbidities, all aiming to preserve quality of life, delay progression, and harness new therapies that are transforming...
Referring Patients with Alzheimer Disease to Neurologists and Improving Patient Communication
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 7 Published on: , Panelists discuss how frontline clinicians tend to refer patients promptly to specialists when early cognitive signs or family history suggest risk, emphasizing the importance of early intervention, clear communication, and addressing logistical barriers to ensure timely diagnosis and access to emerging treatments that can slow disease progression.
Leveraging Patient Trust to Improve Outcomes in Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 6 Published on: , Panelists discuss how long-standing relationships between clinicians and patients are essential for early detection of cognitive decline, as trust and familiarity enable providers to notice subtle changes, facilitate open conversations, and collaboratively implement early interventions that help preserve independence amid an aging population.
Early Identification and Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 5 Published on: , Panelists discuss how primary care physicians rely on clinical observations, history-taking, and cognitive assessments—despite time and training limitations—to diagnose Alzheimer disease early, emphasizing the critical need for timely detection to enable effective interventions, lifestyle modifications, and to reduce long-term societal and health care burdens.
Importance of Biomarkers for Diagnosing and Staging Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 4 Published on: , Panelists discuss how biomarker testing and advanced imaging—such as MRI, PET scans, blood-based biomarkers, and cerebrospinal fluid analysis—are crucial for accurately diagnosing and staging Alzheimer disease, with an emphasis on personalized timing and integrating genetic, lifestyle, and vascular risk factors to enable early intervention and tailored prevention strategies.
Diagnosing and Staging Alzheimer Disease in Frontline Care Settings
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 3 Published on: , Panelists discuss how frontline physicians evaluate patients for Alzheimer by balancing observable signs, cognitive testing, and advanced imaging, recognizing the disease’s nuanced progression and individual variability, which underscores the importance of personalized assessments for early diagnosis and tailored care.
Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology and Treatments
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 1 Published on: , Panelists discuss how advances in diagnostics and the emergence of disease-modifying therapies have transformed Alzheimer care by enabling earlier, more accurate diagnosis and proactive treatment strategies that improve both clinical outcomes and patients’ quality of life.
Risk Factors For Alzheimer Disease
Front Line Assessment, Diagnosis, and Referral for Alzheimer Disease - Episode 2 Published on: , Panelists discuss how age remains the primary risk factor for Alzheimer dementia, but modifiable lifestyle and cardiovascular factors—such as social engagement, sleep, diet, exercise, and blood pressure—play a crucial role in influencing disease onset and progression, emphasizing the importance of early detection, proactive management, and holistic care strategies.
‘To Kill A Tiger’ Fights Child Sexual Violence, But Lacks The Mother's Perspective
Trigger Warning: Child rape Nisha Pahuja’s 2024 Oscar nominated documentary To Kill a Tiger tracks the fight of a 13-year-old survivor of a violent gang rape in the eastern Indian state of Jharkand to bring her rapists before the law and get them convicted for their crimes.
'Killers Of The Flower Moon': A Film More For Non-indigenous Than For Indigenous Viewers
In the Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan’s novel Mean Spirit (1990), when the white Euro-American settlers started murdering indigenous Osage women for money in the story that has come to be known in Native American history as the 1920s Osage oil murders, they did not destroy just the human inhabitants of the Osage reservation in the state of Oklahoma. They also hunted and killed eagles and bats, both sacred to the tribe.
K. G. George and the Craft of the Flashback
If there is one diegetic device that film viewers associate with K. G. George, the renowned Indian director of Malayalam language films hailing from Kerala who passed away recently on September 24, it must be the flashback. Indeed, George titled one of his films Lekhayude Maranam, Oru Flashback (Lekha’s Death, A Flashback, 1983), though reconstruction and retelling via flashback is a structural principle in several of his films.
Kerala's Public Masturbation Row: From Creepy Behaviour To Men’s Rights Movement
Trigger Warning: This article is about the public masturbation incident in Kerala and mentions sexual harassment and rape. It is your regular grocery store on a regular weekday evening. You are walking along the aisles picking a packet here and a can there when suddenly from the household cleaning supplies aisle jumps out a fellow with his pants zipper open. He is holding his erect penis in his hand and staring at you. From where you stand, he looks insane.
'Neelavelicham': A New Retelling Haunted By The Old
Spoiler Alert: This is not a review of the film ‘Neelavelicham’ but it has references to certain scenes and the plot. Director Aashiq Abu’s new film Neelavelicham (2023) is an adaptation of renowned Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s short story Neelavelicham (1952; translated as The Blue Light by V. Abdulla, 1983). It is also simultaneously a remake of an earlier film adaptation of the story by A. Vincent, Kerala’s master storyteller of the silver screen.
The Murder Of Dr. Vandana Das Is A Wake-Up Call To Correct A Healthcare System Gone Awry
Trigger Warning: This article discusses Dr. Vandana Das’ murder and mentions about gender-based violence and child abuse.
The IOA President P.T Usha Should Do More To Help The Wrestlers Redress Their Complaints
One of the more interesting sidebars to come out of the sexual harassment complaints made by India’s top wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) president Brijbhushan Sharan Singh is the harsh rebuke meted out to the protesting wrestlers in recent weeks by the current IOA president Ms. P. T. Usha who censured the wrestlers for their lack of discipline: “Thoda toh discipline hona chahiye [there should be some discipline].
Development and clinical validation of Swaasa AI platform for screening and prioritization of pulmonary TB
Scientific Reports, Apr 2023 This is a preview of a remote PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31772-9.pdf Yellapu, Gayatri Devi, Rudraraju, Gowrisree, Sripada, Narayana Rao, Mamidgi, Baswaraj, Jalukuru, Charan, Firmal, Priyanka, Yechuri, Venkat, Varanasi, Sowmya, Peddireddi, Venkata Sudhakar, Bhimarasetty, Devi Madhavi, Kanisetti, Sidharth, Joshi, Niranjan, Mohapatra, Prasant, Pamarthi, Kiran. , Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31772-9
Why Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur stood in the 1962 Lok Sabha elections (and won by a landslide)
In 1962 the Swatantra Party was contesting elections for the first time. There was a meeting of some of its leaders and prominent party members in Jaipur, and there it was decided that besides contesting the Jaipur parliamentary seat myself, I should be responsible for securing the election of candidates for the whole area that had been the old state of Jaipur. This was a serious responsibility for someone without political experience. Jaipur state covered about 16,000 square miles.
“A Great Future in Plastics”: Crimes of the Future and Cronenberg’s Story of Evolution
* * * David Cronenberg’s 2022 film Crimes of the Future shares more than the title with his own earlier 1970 film with the same title. Though mainstream reviews by and large eschew this connection (see RogerEbert.com’s review, for instance), the new film carries two key narrative elements straight from the old film: uncontrolled and abnormal multiplication of cells in the human body into large new, superfluous organs; and a skepticism about the temporal limits of human evolution.
SubscriberWrites: IAS officer Venkitaraman, accused of culpable homicide, should resign, not appointed to new posts
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Tara Ramanujan’s Nishiddho: A Malayalam Film That Walks Its Own Female Path
Debut Malayalam film director Tara Ramanujan’s 2021 feature film Nishiddho won the second best feature film awardat the 52nd Kerala State Film awards marking a singular turn in the tone and texture of recent Malayalam films to win popular and critical acclaim in the region’s thriving film industry. Malayalam films, in general, are rightfully known for combining mainstream appeal with art-house values.
Dementia Cases Expected to Triple by 2050
Key Takeaways Cases of dementia around the world are expected to almost triple by 2050. According to a new analysis, the key factors are population growth and population aging. Some areas of the world—like North Africa, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa—are expected to see the biggest increases in dementia. One key element attributed to the rise is the increase in longevity.
Is The Franco Mulakkal Acquittal Decriminalizing Rape?
2022 began with a series of aggravating and blatant criminal violations of women’s sexual safety and human rights in the south Indian state of Kerala. Though the child has been returned to his birth mother, the individuals and officers, including government employees, involved in the 2019 illegal kidnapping and out-of-state adoption of Anupama Ajith’s infant son are still not prosecuted under the writ of law. Lawyer, Dalit activist, and teacher Smt.
Book Review: Indu Menon's 'The Lesbian Cow And Other Stories' Is Stained By An Excess Of Trauma Porn
Trigger warning: Mention of torture, rape It is a matter of unfortunate literary consequence that the new volume of short stories by the Malayalam writer Smt. Indu Menon translated into English by Nandakumar K for Eka Publications, 2021 is entitled The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories. In the English-speaking world, the word “cow” when used with reference to women is a sexist slur.
Anupama & Deepa P Mohanan's Cases: The Intersectionality Crisis In Kerala's Left Politics
Two recent high-profile cases of civil and human rights violations of women in Kerala expose the ruling neo-liberal left party’s evident failure to engage with the vectors of intersectionality that surround current debates about women’s rights and its discontents in the state. Discrimination against Dalit caste identity is the repressed content in both cases.
Is old ever too old? Cognitively impaired politicians, judges and physicians
A 60-plus-year-old judge her law clerk to don judicial robes while presiding over cases for nearly a year before her dismissal with Alzheimer’s disease. An elderly surgeon continues to operate but forgets the location of his office. As neurologists specializing in cognition, we know that nearly a third of adults 65 years and older suffer from mild cognitive impairment or dementia, climbing to over half by our mid-80s, most often from Alzheimer’s disease.
Cognitive Impairment in Aging Physicians
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker: Laughter Without an Echo Chamber
In Joker, we see a reversal of Tarantino’s aesthetic, where a patently comic character, a joker with a clown face, is, by degrees, rendered tragic, or as near tragic as any contemporary character might hope to be. Joker details with painstaking granularity how to strip joviality out of a joker, how to remove laughter away from the audience when looking into the face of a joker. Joker also reminds us, as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood does, of the relative proximity of comedy and tragedy.
New Hope For Alzheimer’s
Gayatri Devi Gayatri Devi, MD, is director of New York Memory and Healthy Aging Services and an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital, both in New York City, and clinical professor of neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Devi is author of more than 50 scientific studies on memory loss and three books for consumers, including The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease
A new way to think about Alzheimer's disease
Gayatri Devi is a physician and author of "The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias." She is director of Park Avenue Neurology, attending neurologist at Northwell Health's Lenox Hill hospital, and clinical professor at SUNY Downstate. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)A high-powered, 64-year-old attorney came to my office because he felt his memory was failing.
Memory, Aging and Dementia
Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen is a collaborative physician who writes a weekly “Medical Monday” column for Women’s Voices for Change. (Search our archives for her posts, calling on the expertise of medical specialists, on topics from angiography to vulvar melanoma.) September is Healthy Aging Month.
From maharani to politician: How Gayatri Devi joined the Swatantra Party to oppose the Congress
May 23, 2019 · 08:30 am Gayatri Devi Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Share Tweet Email Reddit Print It was in 1960 that I made my official entry into politics. The year before when Jai and I had gone to Bombay to see Ma, we had heard our friends talk enthusiastically about a new party called the Swatantra (“Independent”) Party. Now, at last, or so people were saying, there was some hope of effective opposition to the Congress Party, both in the country and in Parliament.
Facing “Ultraviolence”: Blindness as Insight in Bird Box
Given the fact that sex and violence are alleged to be as normalized in our culture as wind blowing through the trees, in Bird Box, Malorie’s shock even appears prudish and inexplicable to us. But in Bier’s handling of the material, Malorie’s consternation registers a deeper distress: how much choice do we have to select what we see when what we see is destructive to us?
Natural Supplements for Alzheimer’s Disease
There are a number of natural supplements that can be used to prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In this video, Dr. Gayatri Devi, board-certified neurologist and author of The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease, lists some of these supplements and explains how they work.
Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease
Gayatri Devi Gayatri Devi, MD, is director of New York Memory and Healthy Aging Services and an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital, both in New York City, and clinical professor of neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Devi is author of more than 50 scientific studies on memory loss and three books for consumers, including The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease in Physicians — Assessing Professional Competence and Tempering Stigma | NEJM
Dr. Redd, a 76-year-old practicing physician, sought help for memory loss at an Alzheimer’s disease research center. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she became distressed when she was instructed to stop working immediately. Abrupt retirement would leave patients in her highly subspecialized practice without care. She obtained a second opinion through the New York state Committee for Physician Health, an advocacy group. Her diagnosis was confirmed.
Living Well, Even With Alzheimer’s
Seven years ago, Joe, a 73-year-old man with a patrician bearing, came to see me at my Manhattan office with his stylish wife and their grown daughter. (I’ve changed his name to protect his privacy.) A money manager in charge of more than a billion dollars in assets, Joe could tell that his memory was fading. Transactions that were once...
Off-label transcranial magnetic stimulation in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A twelve-year case series in a single clinic
Highlights • TMS is well tolerated in patients with chronic neurologic diseases. • TMS treatment was associated with less decline on verbal fluency and naming measures in AD and aMCI patients over several years.
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