-- With regards, J. M. Garg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 1 May, 2022, 9:38 am Subject: Re: [itpmods:16644] Fwd: D S Rawat: 15 Glorious years of Efloraofindia To: itpmods <[email protected]>
Very Well written narrative Rawat ji. Thanks for your contributions. Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. https://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 9:35 AM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh! Such a wonderful narrative, Rawat ji. Portrayed the best of eFI and > your association with it. > Reading your articles is sheer pleasure. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 8:48 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 at 08:41 >> Subject: Re: D S Rawat: 15 Glorious years of Efloraofindia >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: D.S Rawat <[email protected]> >> >> >> Thanks a lot, Rawat ji. >> So well written. >> Your dream of '*hope we all, combined together by a thread of selfless >> service in eFI, reach to the remotest and last species of India and >> showcase it here!'* may be very far off, but not impossible. We are >> working in that direction. You ask anybody for images of new additions and >> most of them are willing. We have to actively seek them and involve them in >> this. >> I remember long fruitful discussions we had (due to common interest in >> google sites) when Google asked us to migrate our site. >> >> >> >> On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 08:34, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *A Decade with efloraofindia* >>> >>> I am an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in the G.B. Pant >>> University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar where the main stream is >>> Agriculture. We are fortunate here to have a college of Basic Science & >>> Humanities wherein the independent departments of basic sciences like >>> Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Maths etc exist. We have a program >>> of M.Sc. Botany and Ph.D. Botany in the department of Biological Sciences. >>> Being a teacher, I have ample opportunities to teach and share whatever I >>> know with good listening students. In fact I chose to be a teacher after >>> serving as a state govt officer for about a decade. >>> >>> My journey with ‘efloraofindia’ started suddenly when I received an >>> email from Garg Ji inviting me to join the group in late 2012. I didn’t >>> know what prompted him to invite me and how he located me? I was unaware of >>> such groups on the net and had little knowledge of computers. Just >>> following the inherent spirit of adventure, joined the group considering >>> ‘see what happens’. Similar to my many trekking ventures in Uttarakhand >>> this also proved worthy and memorable. I sent my first request for >>> identification of a species of an uncommon *Vicia* species and got it >>> identified. It encouraged me that I am at the right forum to discuss my >>> identifications. Since then I have been posting my pics (though nowadays >>> little active) with self determined identities, sometimes these are >>> corrected by knowledgeable members/ experts. Despite practicing floristics >>> since my M.Sc. days in 1987-89 I found many plants difficult to identify >>> but these get identified easily in eFI. Association with the efloraofindia >>> group has grown to about one decade long for me. This journey with eFI has >>> been happy and satisfying- taking the help of others and sometimes helping >>> others too. I was in fact surprised when I was asked to become moderator >>> first and later as pillar. These are not simple responsibilities and I >>> often shy away from such responsibilities considering the fact that the >>> dedication required for such work is difficult to generate and the >>> essential duties of a job allow limited time to invest in such volunteer >>> work. This long association of learning with efloraofindia has made me its >>> fan as well as its student. Now, when I go to any botanical tour it always >>> lurks in the mind that what new I will find and share in the efloraofindia >>> group. Collecting, photographing and sharing something rare or new has a >>> pleasure of its own kind to me and probably all of us here. >>> >>> I am now also a member of a few other plant related groups (mainly added >>> by moderators) and understand that our group (efloraofindia group) is >>> incomparable to these. Here we have members always seriously trying to >>> reach the correct identity of a species as compared to other groups where >>> people casually suggest the identities which many times are completely >>> unrelated. Once in a group I tried to correct one id and received unwanted >>> comments, consequently, I stopped commenting. Here in efloraofindia we >>> suggest the ids and if these are wrong no one uses such comments and it >>> gives a chance to learn. After all, no one is a perfect expert. The modesty >>> seen here is amazing together with the apt interventions by the moderator. >>> >>> I feel proud being a member, an ardent fan and student of efloraofindia >>> group which is a ‘good teacher’ teaching Indian flora on the net. And who >>> will not feel proud being a member of the largest pictorial database on >>> Indian flora? I wish to see eFI as the complete database of flowering >>> plants of India with all 21000 species (approximate number of flowering >>> plants); a database of its own kind in the world where one can contribute, >>> help others or ask for help, all free and amicably. To me eFI is the most >>> successful Citizen Science endeavour in India. >>> >>> I feel happy whenever a hard core taxonomist joins the group and >>> enriches the pool of experts available in eFI. We need many more experts >>> here to make it a high class referable repository by correcting all dubious >>> identities. >>> >>> To me eFI is such an indispensable resource that when I explain a >>> flowering plant family in PG classes and share brief notes with students I >>> never forget to share the link of the same family in eFI. This allows them >>> to see a large number of species known in India. >>> >>> The biggest benefit from efloraofindia group and eFI for me was the >>> stimulus to start my own Google site eflorapantnagar >>> <https://sites.google.com/view/eflorapantnagar/home> where I have put a >>> large number (though not all) of plants of Pantnagar for the benefit of my >>> students and others interested in plants. It was not possible to start it >>> without the support I got from Garg Ji and Dinesh Ji. >>> >>> When eFI was a Google site I was trying to add information or do minor >>> editing as was being done by many other members at that time but after its >>> transfer to another server everything had to be managed by Garg Ji. I >>> admire his zeal for this cause but somewhere in the corner of my heart I >>> feel pain for not being able to share his work even for a minute task. >>> >>> At the completion of 15 years of efloraofindia I congratulate the team >>> eFI (esteemed outstanding contributors >>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/08/02/outstanding-contributors/>, the >>> pillars <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/11/12/pillars-of-efloraofindia/> >>> , experts <https://efloraofindia.com/2014/09/16/subject-experts/>, >>> moderators <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/01/12/moderators/>, major >>> contributors <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/01/12/major-contributors/> and >>> all the members) and bow my head to express awe to the ‘triveni’ of Garg >>> Ji >>> <https://efloraofindia.com/wp-content/uploads/attachments/10001527_412106022258010_1588519322_n.jpg-attredirects-0>, >>> ‘Saarthi ‘सारथि’ of eFloraofIndia >>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2022/02/21/saarthi-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a5%e0%a4%bf-of-efloraofindia/>’ >>> and ‘Pitamah of eFloraofIndia >>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2014/11/14/pitamah-of-efloraofindia/>’. >>> >>> It is also the right time to reiterate my earlier words- *hope we all, >>> combined together by a thread of selfless service in eFI, reach to the >>> remotest and last species of India and showcase it here!* >>> >>> Dharmendra Singh Rawat, Pantnagar >>> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDqvv9BXfB9h4R6322%2BNZPuUAJQfVeVufiJ1cg-x0Y39w%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDqvv9BXfB9h4R6322%2BNZPuUAJQfVeVufiJ1cg-x0Y39w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABSQqC3p2qFk4q7dR_osqFLn6fScgyrrcEE%2BD_b6EWHLZKqEiA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CABSQqC3p2qFk4q7dR_osqFLn6fScgyrrcEE%2BD_b6EWHLZKqEiA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ITPmods" group. 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