Yelläks /ˈyæl•eks/

A DAAD scholarship for India is co-financed by the Indian government. The institution which takes care of all this, is called ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations). So after passing the first stages of application and interview at the DAAD, it will suggest your application to the ICCR. Therefore some forms have to be filled out among others also a certificate of physical fitness, which states, if the applicant is in a good shape to join an Indian institute, and which has to be filled out by a registered medical practitioner.

On the first page it contains a matrix of 30 sicknesses, which someone may had in the past. Each sickness has to be marked with a minus for a negative finding or a plus for a positive findings (see copy below). If any of the findings is positive, the applicant is rejected. Unfortunately no applicant who was born with a nose or had coughing in the past, is eligible for a scholarship. Even sweating or night sweat is not allowed. So only people from Greenland or North/South Pole, without noses and without coughing can get a scholarship by the ICCR. Fortunately I never had a nose and even in Chennai I have never sweated . The question is, how many are there with a history like this? My guess is, that this form has been translated once and the interpreter did not know English so well. Oh, does anybody know, what sickness is called “Type”? Is it a sickness or more a description for a character property?