Dear Gurcharan ji, Thanks a lot for the great honor. This shows your generosity and kindness. As we all know, our eFI group is full of experts and highly talented members. I am very lucky that you chose to vote for my name :) [I may need another lifetime or two to achieve this status!] If I have been able to help in addressing some id-related queries, its mainly because of two reasons: firstly, I was fortunate to work with FRLHT which provided opportunities for me to conduct extensive botanical surveys across the country; and I was also fortunate to have Dr. Ravikumar as my guide who, being one of the great taxonomists in India, taught me plants selflessly and un-reluctantly.
Thank you once again for the honor and encouragements. Thanks Dinesh ji, I also have similar thoughts... Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear friends > I was slightly apprehensive about some member/s feeling bad when I wrote > about Dr. Pankaj Kumar Sahni as the most matured person on the Group. This > was based on my seeing his growth through the group. I am happy the members > of this group are both matured, gracious and accommodating to appreciate > others. That is why I love this Group. > When it comes to identifying plants, especially the rare and difficult > ones, the one person I always find coming to our rescue is my vote for the > most talented person, Dr. Vijayasankar Raman. We are proud to have you in > our Group sir. > This in no way undermines the great talent of our other active experts > including Dr. Giby, Dr. Mahadeshwara, Dr. Muthu, Dr. Pankaj, Dr. Balkar, > Dr. Tanay, Dr. Nidhan, Dr. Ritesh, Dr. Amit Chauhan, Mr. Surajit, Mr. > Suresh, our expert on trees Raman Arunachalam and others who will pardon > me for skipping their name. > Special thanks to our non-botanist experts, Neil ji, Dinesh ji, Dr. > Satish Phadke ji, Shrikant ji, Rajesh ji, Prashant ji, Pravin ji, Ushadi, > Alok Mahendru ji, Aarti ji, Raju ji, and other friends who not only feed > us continuously with good and rare plants, but also identify large number > of plants for us. > Perhaps we would not been able to learn so much without the innovative > initiative by our founder members of respective Forums Garg ji and Tabish > ji. > > -- > 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/ > >
