Thank you very much Gurcharan ji. Many thanks to Balkar ji and Nidhan ji too. It is very heartening to find a place in your book.
Best wishes to efloraofindia and Flowers of India. Both are already well-known,yet we all have a long long way to go. Indeed, increasing awareness is a must. Regards. Dinesh On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > It is heartening to note that our forum and the websites of Flowers of > India and efloraofindia are becoming more popular day by day due to new > experts joining it and increasing its value and our dedicated team making > every effort to reach out to teachers and students of botany and public in > general. In my chapter "eFlora: the future of floristic documentation" in > an edited book "Plant Taxonomy Past, Present and Future", 2012, I had > devoted 4 full pages (included here as attachment) to efloraofindia, > Flowers of India as well personal contributions by Garg ji, Dinesh ji and > myself. Balkar ji is playing a great role in making it popular by > representing the group at a recent conference, and again along with Nidhan > ji holding a photographic exhibition at Panipat on 16th March, where > efloraofindia was a big focus. > Thankfully after coming back to India I had a chance to deliver > lectures at a few colleges on the "Role of Digital photography, computers > and internet" where I have made special efforts to attract students and > teachers to join and contribute. I am happy to note that students have been > very receptive of this new approach. Through online power-point > presentation I showed them the websites and personal pages to make them > more popular. > I request other members also to devise methods to increase awareness > about our groups to different communities of people. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
