Dear Sir ji, I liked the write up. Many times I have expressed myself why I like eflora. But today I can't resist telling a story Yesterday in our society members feliciteted me for becomming Dean. One honourable lady who has done her Ph.D in child psycology and was a pricipal of B.Ed. College in her speech said-- In our life we have four stages. In the first stage we are a small child spending most of the time with parents. In second stage we take education in school and college. In third stage we take a job, get married, get our achievements in life and start thinking about retirement mostly from the age of 55. And then spend our time slugishly in office in the pretex that we will retier in two/three yrs so why work? And we retier. This occurs in 95% of the cases. But remaining 5% think that they should utilise their knowledge for betterment! Which may be betterment for themselves or for office or for society. This is called as vocational maturity. Since they have achieved vocational maturity they r of great help because their experience and expertise in the field is really comandable. I will like to say that you are on that mode now. You are utilising your knowledge, time, patience for betterment of the group and people like us. Hats off to you! Bye Madhuri
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -----Original Message----- From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:06:30 To: efloraofindia<[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:65205] Why I love Efloraofindia Group? Why I love Efloraofindia? I have asked myself many a times why do I feel so involved with efloraofindia group and love interacting it? I found the following answers: 1. I love the group because it has given me a good reason to keep busy after retirement (I felt involved even before formal retirement), so that I don’t have to think about how should I spend my time. I I love the group because it has given me a reason to restudy, catalogue, digitise my herbarium collection of more than 10,000 specimens, which were lying unattended due to my busy teaching schedule. I would be uploading these as a virtual herbarium. 2. I love this group because it has now given me a zeal and plan to visit as many places as possible. More important, visiting these places in different months so that I am able to find, photograph and have new plants to report in the group. Adding these to my publications would be a bonus for me. 3. I love this group because of our prominent members Garg ji (who in spite of being the owner of the group, has never given the impression of authority), Dinesh ji (the architect of its great advancement), Satish Phadke ji (the great strength of the group), Vijayasankar ji, Shrikant ji, Nayan ji, Nidhan ji, Balkar ji, Prashant ji, Tabish ji, Pravin ji, Devendra ji and Promila ji (the great experts, who don’t allow any plant to go unidentified, and at the same time are great examples of high morality and great humility, the examples to be followed by our youngsters. 4. I love this group for plant lovers Neil ji, Yazdy ji, who own huge collection of plants in their estates and never hesitate to share these. I salute Neil ji for his great knowledge of plants. 5. I love the group for members like Nalini ji, Madhuri ji, Padmini ji, Aarti ji, Rashida ji, Pankaj Oudyia ji, Anand ji, our story telling group, who never miss an occasion to add spice to the information, and never allow the discussion to lose its interest. Mani ji and Antaryamy have added flavor to these interactions by their frequent Hindi couplets. 6. I love the group for its young experts Pankaj ji, Mahadeswara ji, Giby ji, Rajdeo ji, Muthu ji, Smita ji, Ritesh ji, Mayur ji, Manudev ji, Raghu ji, Shantanu ji for their great expertise, love for plants and never hesitating to share their point of view, although maintaining the high standards of communication. They are the future of the group. Snehal ji, I am happy, is learning it fast. Others who interact less frequently, and I am able to recollect their names may please excuse me. 7. I love Tanay (the only person I don’t attach ji) the most, because this young fellow who has such a great knowledge of plants from every part of India/World at this young age has attained the high level of maturity after joining this group. 8. Our new active members Alok ji, Puttaraju ji and others are enriching our database and gradually adjusting to the group norms. M My request to some young members is not to get tempted to depict the show of authority and knowledge. The members are intelligent enough to understand the capability of each member. These young members have a great future, and I wish that learning from the experience of interacting in the group would bring great success in life. -- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
