Gurucharanji, You are simply great.
On Mar 20, 7:36 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
