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to value the wisdom and practicality of traditional knowledge systems. He said, %u201cWe have gone into the question of the future of Ayurveda and Unani so seriously that we have suggested to the Central Council of Health that a decision is becoming necessary that Ayurveda or Unani as a system should be taught in the modern medical colleges under the history of medicine. On our part, we have asked the students to select either Unani or Ayurveda in which we are going to have a definite course in modern medicine itself. While you are doing the MBBS, we would have a course for indigenous systems so that every doctor who passes in this country will be in a position to know what Ayurveda is, and what Unani is and integrate the two sciences later. If there is any value in the science, it will live forever in the reintegration through allopathy.%u201d Unfortunately, this eminently practical approach did not find favour with the medical, and educational community. During his time as the Health Minister PVG Raju was probably instrumental in persuading the Nizam of Hyderabad to contribute resources to the Health Ministry. Given his own proclivity to donate liberally to worthwhile causes, it would be interesting to speculate how he convinced the notoriously tightfisted Nizam to donate. On the floor of the house, he says, %u201cI would like to go on record that our government is very grateful to the Nizam's Trust for having given Rs.30 lakhs for the development of an orthopaedic hospital in our state. This is a very big donation. No single charity or group has so far come forward with such a munificent donation. It is a fashion to discuss the historical past with a measure of cynicism or criticism. I am not going into the merits or demerits of aristocracy, whether the Nizams of the past were tyrants or democrats and so on, but I would like to go on record that we 135