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Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism.

An African American woman doctor, fresh from her residency training in 1975, Dr. Cornelia Davis chose a less traveled path, a decision that would have profound global ramifications In a historic endeavor by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eradicate smallpox, a disease that had tormented humanity for millennia, Davis was thrust into the heart of India. There, she confronted deeply ingrained sexism and caste discrimination while relentlessly hunting for the last vestiges of this brutal illness.

The Ghost and the Ball of Candle Wax: The Boyhood of Dr. Jose P. Rizal is a historical anecdote of Dr. Jose P. Rizal in Barrio de la Paz while studying under the tutelage of Maestro Justiniano Cruz in Binan, Laguna, Philippines. His family was a devotee of the Nuestra Senora de la Paz y Bien Viaje in the old Mission de la Paz. Unlike the empirical researches of Dr. Gregorio Zaide and Leon Ma. Guerrero, Dr. Napoli Fiatro St. Croix has used the data he garnered during his childhood years in Barrio de la Paz from the rag-tag stories of Lelang Toyang, the storyteller of the ages.