The Special Marriage Act (SMA), 1954 and the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), 1955 have put restrictions on the marriage of persons with mental illness, which are proving to be detrimental to patients and their families. There is an urgent need to address this problem. The deficiencies in the existing legislation have been projected and constructive suggestions have been put forward.

One hundred neurotics, and one hundred relatives of the psychotic and neurotic patients were interviewed to assess their knowledge, beliefs, opinions, and expectations regarding the nature of the illness, causation. pathogenesis, investigations, and management of psychiatric ailments. Their views were gathered on issues like Religion, God, Spiritual possessions, Sin, Witchcraft, Slow poisoning. Evil eye, Fate, Food, Sex, Sleep, Modernization, Bhagawad Gita, Guru, Yoga, and Meditation along with the established factors like Heredity, Interpersonal relations, Drugs. Electrical treatments, Psychotherapy, and Freudian concepts. The analysis of the results showed the cultural gap between the patient and the ' therapist. The Implications of the results are discussed. A consideration of customer's view point in the development of indigenous paradigms of psychiatric treatment is emphasised.

The goal of medical education is to produce the physician we would like to see if we are sick -MelinkoffIn all educational developments, one of the most troublesome questions is that of evaluation. Written examination is the most widely used tool in evaluation and assessment of the competency of the medical students. At present, questions are prepared casually just before the examination and are not subjected to any quality check, which may lead to confusion or wrong understanding of the questions by the students. This article is aimed at providing guidelines and a scientific method to frame good question papers to improve the quality of evaluation and assessment of medical students.