Dear Colleagues,

I am sure, by now you are hooked to IRA e-bulletin. However, these are early days. The bulletin needs to be nurtured. Your inputs, suggestions, contributions, and criticism are critical.

The editor of the e-bulletin, Dr. Banwari Sharma, has started the important activity of collecting Indian data. It is essential that we (all) respond. The data then will be representative. There were only 16 responders to the last questionnaire. We can and should do better.

A few changes have been made from this issue to improve its visibility and member’s access.

1. It will be web page format so it can be visualized directly on Smartphone also.
2. Submit buttons will be provided in the news letter after the best reply of question of month; so, members can submit by clicking that with no need to mail the reply.
3. Rather than giving separate link to survey-based questionnaire it is being incorporated in news letter with buttons. This is to ease the response process!
   The issue includes the usual items. Additional feature “information on important recent papers from India” is introduced.

Hope you enjoy the issue and respond!

Dr. Vinay R Joshi
Guest Editor,
Director of Research, Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai