Call for poems
in MSM Poems Section on Medicine, Health and Human Behaviour
We begin a Mens Sana Monographs Poems Section from this issue.
Interested poets may send their work for consideration. They may be in verse, but preferably in blank verse. A fourline write up on the poet with a photograph
must accompany every
submission. You may submit not more than three poems at one time.
While there cannot really be a restriction of any nature as to topics in poetry, poems dealing with medicine, health, delicate satire on human behaviour of various types, insighful reflections etc are more likely to be accepted for publication.
Poems may preferably be submitted in Word format by email and addressed to the Editor.
Acceptance, or otherwise, will be conveyed within four weeks of receipt of submission, if not earlier. We do not wish to increase the anguish of poets by
making them wait further. That may lead to another distressed poetry because of us!
Poems for potential publication in Mens Sana Monographs Vol III, No 6, March-April 2006 ISSN 0973-1229 should reach the Editor in Microsoft Word format by 1st January 2006. All poems will be submitted for peer review and a decision of acceptance or otherwise will be conveyed to the authors by 1st Feb 2006.
Authors may contact the Editor, Mens Sana Monographs, for further details and clarification (email: mensanamonographs@yahoo.co.uk). They may also visit the website http://mensanamonographs.tripod.com for further information.
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MSM Poems
Silences
Indeed.
Silences
Allow whispers to
Travel
long distances.
And
Whispers
Make silences
Come to life.
And
Life itself
Is a
Whisper
Between
Two silences.
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Parliament
Yesterday
the crows gathered on our terrace
for a meeting.
There were at least five hundred
of them
if not more.
And,
as they caw-cawed
and moved about animatedly
and argued
and jostled
and changed sides
and hung on
to slender ropes
and made it all appear
very intense
and
apparently purposeful
and
equally entertaining.
I remembered
another
similar assembly.
Ajai Singh
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Readers Respond
You can read here a response to the last issue of Mens Sana Monographs
Medical Practice, Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry: And Ever the Trio Shall Meet, Mens Sana Monographs,
Mens Sana Research Foundation (2005), Vol II, No 6, Vol III, No 1-3, March - October 2005. ISSN 0973-1229.
Please allow me to congratulate you on bringing out Mens Sana 8th and 9th Monographs on Medical Practice, Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry. You and Shakuntala
have obviously put
in an enormous effort to study dozens of documents, articles and books to bring out such a comprehensive review of this topic with focus on important areas for debate
in India. You deserve
congratulations of all the readers of these Monographs.
Dr. Narendra N. Wig,
Prof Emeritus Psychiatry,
PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
8th Sept, 2005.
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