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Dear friends, I am deeply honoured by the trust you have reposed in me and elected me to the highest office of the Indian Psychiatric Society. At this point of time, I would like to pay my respects to my revered teachers and seniors who taught me the ABC of psychiatry, mentored and blessed me all along my journey to this point. Dear Sirs, Prof. Agarwal, Prof. Lal, Prof. Gupta, Prof. Mata Prasad, Prof. Rastogi, Prof. Tandon, Prof.
Prabhat Sitholey, and Dr. Ashok Trivedi, I thank you all wholeheartedly for all that you have taught me. I would like to give the credit to you all for this achievement. At this moment, I would like to remember my father Late Pandit Harish Chandra Sharma, a practicing lawyer at the Allahabad High court, for the enthusiasm he infused in me and for his lofty ideals, a few of which I have imbibed.
I would like to dedicate this address to him. Violence against women is a social, economic, developmental, legal, educational, human rights, and health physical and mental issue. The relationship between violence against women and mental illness has not been adequately explored. Responses by communities, religious institutions, government various commissions , international conventions, stringent legislations and penal measures have failed miserably in containing the menace.
The recent gang rape of a medical student on Violence against women is on the national agenda. Government is making frantic efforts to find solutions. The world has entered into a new millennium, but from the dawn of civilization till date, the woman of the patriarchal society of India continues to be oppressed and ill-treated. She is dependent, weak, exploited and faces gender discrimination in every sphere of life.
