Chairman's Corner  Ranga Krishnan, M.B., Ch.B., 
    This is an exciting time for medicine in general and mental health in particular. There is a remarkable explosion in knowledge about the brain, our genes, and treatment (both psychosocial and biological) of mental disorders. There is also a rapid change in how we communicate with each other. The advent of the internet has greatly changed how we live and interact with each other. At the same time there is increasing difficulty in being able to provide state of the art services to patients and therefore the need for developing better and more efficient care delivery systems. Our department is fortunate in being able to play a major role in these developments. We are a broad, diverse and deep department. The members of our department come from a variety of disciplines besides psychiatry including medical psychology, social work, nursing, toxicology, epidemiology, molecular biology and neuroscience.