I have been lucky to meet him personally at Nagpur during IAAT conference, November 2013..I was greatly inspired by his humbleness, down to earth attitude and in depth knowledge of his area of interest, he is really a gem of a person..
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:55 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > Dr. Sabu is one of the top taxonomists of India & an expert on > Zingiberaceae, Musaceae, Marantaceae etc. He is the Professor of > Taxonomy and Floristics Division, Department of Botany > Calicut University, Kerala. He is the Secretary of Indian Association for > Angiosperm Taxonomy <http://www.iaat.org.in/index.html>, established in > 1990, which also brings out Rheedea <http://www.iaat.org.in/rheedea.html> (of > which he is the Executive editor), which publishes peer reviewed original > research and review articles in angiosperm taxonomy. > > Despite being very busy, he has never shied away from helping us on these > families as can be seen from his inputs during the Zingiberaceae Month. > > With whatever little interactions I have with him, I can only say he seems > to be a very humble person who wants to see that Indian Taxonomy stays at > top & he will leave no stone un-turned in the matter. > > May be other members, who are more familiar with him, can highlight other > qualities & aspects of his magnetic personality. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2380 members & 1,96,000 messages on 31/7/14) or > Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> > (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner > of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
