Respected Sirs and Mam Thanks a lot for your kind words. It was indeed great learning from Nidhan sir and Balkar sir and Dr. Amit Kotia, who themselves are great botanists. Hope to have such meeting more often in future although, I understand that the limitation is more from my side as I reside outside India. Thanks a lot for those wonderful memories and smiles and of course knowledge. I learn every day. Thanks and regards Pankaj
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:56:18 UTC+8, Nidhan Singh wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > This is a general post, contrary to what we usually post on eFI. Even > then, I could not stop myself in expressing my feelings about our recent > excursion-cum-meeting programme, concluded from March 03 to 05, 2018. > As a group, we have been interacting for last many years, without > personally seeing each other. Through personal efforts of Balkar Ji and > myself, we have been able to meet many of our esteemed members, and have > been lucky to go to field surveys together. Every tour has been a wonderful > occasion, be it a visit to Chakrata, Gori valley, Valley of Flowers and > many other places. All these tour were pre-planned and were given a prior > thinking. > > But, this year, knowing about Pankaj Ji's India visit, and his plan to > visit Dehradun, we decided to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity > to meet one of the most committed field botanists, known to us. The tour > was decided, and executed too, without pre-planning. I personally took this > as more of a meeting than flora hunting, due to being off season for > flowering. We visited surrounds of Mussoorie-Dhanaulti together, in a group > of six (me, Balkar Ji, Pankaj Ji, Amit Kotia Ji, Amritpal Singh and > Mahender Rawat). > > It was really a great learning, to explore the forests, with a renowned > Orchidologist of world, having endless passion and love for these lovely > plants. His field experience is something to follow and learn from, and I > am now a better admirer of Pankaj Ji's skills and capabilities. Besides > being a wonderful taxonomist, he is a humble person, always ready to help > and extend his full support to any one who approaches him with a need. > I am thankful to Pankaj Ji for this memorable time, we spent together, to > Balkar Ji for all the logistic support, in addition to his keen observation > in the field. I hope we can arrange such tours in future also, which will > encourage young botanists like Amritpal Singh. > Attaching a picture of Pankaj Ji with a smile of finding a beautiful and > fragrant orchid, *Calanthe plantaginea*... > > > -- > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
