However, the numbers currently being treated in specialist clinics are just a "drop in the ocean, " given the millions of Indians with little or no access to health care, according to Gulrez Shah Azhar, a senior lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar.

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The federal Drug Enforcement Agency keeps an eye on things too, and reports very little abuse of the drug by non-Indians.

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The rise of organised retail will save Indians money, even if it adds a little anomie.

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The gelding gained legendary status as the sole survivor on the U.S. Cavalry side of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn -- fought between General Custer's troops and native American Indians.

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Tragically for his men, his military successes there, and in later wars against the Indians, induced a hubris that led Custer to make some catastrophic decisions at Little Bighorn.

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