Sadhvi Rithambara. Dipesh Chakrabarti,
another member of the Subaltern Studies editorial team, in a more recent article
has argued that we need to search for creative elements in everything condemned by
the "His Master's Voice" of the post-Enlightenment West. This, for him,
explicitly includes Marx just as much as Macaulay (Naiya, February 1991:Baromas,
October 1992.

8. They are less alienated, surely, from Indian culture or elementary human values
than those young men of Surat who, in the name of Hindutva, videotaped their gang-rape
of Muslim women. The tape, I have been told, is being avidly watched at evening parties
in some affluent Bombay homes.

9. Leon Trotsky, 'For a Workers' United Front against Fascism' (December 1931) in
The Struggle against Fascism in Germany (Penguin, 1975, p. 106)

10. The Frontline of January 15, 1993, pp 60-81, carries some moving reports
ofThe Case for Cultural Competence

There was praise as well as grumbling last March after New Jersey's acting governor, Richard J. Codey, signed legislation requiring doctors to take cultural-competency training to qualify for a license by the State Board of Medical Examiners. Some physicians felt the move was unnecessary—akin to taking continuing medical education (CME) courses to remind doctors of medical ethics.

Others felt it would benefit minority groups that were not receiving an adequate level of healthcare. But it seemed to make an impact on legislators in Arizona, Illinois, and New York; all three states also are considering similar bills to require doctors to take cultural-competency training.

Two CME experts—Ruben Gutierrez, director of Sudler & Hennessey's multicultural education and managing director of IntraMed, and Annemarie Armani, senior medical director of