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In writing a book like this I owe debt to all kinds of people. To Dr. Herbert L. Whittier, Professor Emeritus, Institute of International Health, Michigan State University whose academic association for the last two decades I prize the most as a source of great inspiration and professional advice for my work in Africa and in the United States,; to my son, Professor Rajesh Lal, whose very candid suggestions at every stage in the writing of this book, has helped me shape the amorphous into this working presentation. Rajesh suggested a number of revisions in the text resulting in inclusions which I had omitted unwittingly in the first draft of the book.

To my wife of 50 years, Santosh, for believing in my work and encouragement to complete it. I sincerely thank her for a wonderfully cheerful patience and a teacher’s eye for improving this presentation with her gentle input. You are a princess and I love you wholly.

Friends, old and new in this country and the countries I have worked for, who read the text of this book and shared their views to format the contents. They are too many to name them individually.

Thanks to psychologist Dr.(Mrs) Tripti Sakhuja, Dr. Dharminder Lamba and Dr. Ripple Lamba from India who have always helped to keep me going on with my projects – now and in the past.

Indeed, I am indebted to many others to name them individually. In particular, I want to name Psychiatrist Dr. Kalpana Parshad M.D. and Psychatrist Dr.Arun Munjal M.D. who provided me advice on day-to-day psychiatric issues.

I want to thank Dr. Srinivas Meka M.D. for his advice and treatment to put new vigor in me to be able to complete this presentation.

Last but not the least, I like to thank the publishers of this work for their useful input and make it appear in this very attractive format.

Like my earlier books I have renewed pleasure in writing this book on SLEEP, since my father (Late, Dr. Khushi Ram of Amritsar (Panjab, India) who was a very renowned physician in his time, and had a passion for medical books. He would have loved to see one more book by me on his shelf of medical books.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO 70 MILLION INSOMNIACS

IN THE UNITED STATES

WHO “COUNT SHEEP”

WHILE REST OF THE

NATION LIES IN DIVINE

SLEEP.