Balkar ji
Very well said. Thank Garg ji, this group has changed lives of many of us.
Having worked extensively on Floristics of Kashmir valley, I had almost
forgotten most of them. While in Delhi for nearly 35 years I was satisfied
with teaching and knowing wild plants for students' sake. I never bothered
to know many of the cultivated trees and shrubs of Delhi Only after joining
this group, the real urge to know every plant was initiated, and now I am
mad about plants. A few days back when Vijayasankar ji doubted
identification of Arundo donax, I literally rushed to the place, got close
ups that helped us to confirm its identity as Phragmites karka. It gives
great feeling to have so many experts on the group. When I published my book
first in 1999, I had proudly written about TAXACOM where an identification
was solved in less than an hour. In our group there have been occasions,
when identifications of difficult plants were solved within a minute.
People often ask me what are doing after retirement? Don't you get
bored? My simple answer is my more than 1200 people on EfloraofIndia don't
allow me to get bored. Ask my wife. She keeps on asking me. Are you really
retired? That is the power of this forum.
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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/
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All
> I am not a so big personality as stated by Tanay ji and Others. What i have
> done is the result of the help given by My friends from all over the world.
> I even does not know the name of some of them. A person from Italy (as
> stated by him) send me more than 400 Hunderd research paper and so many
> books but does not agree to disclose his/her identity or even personal email
> id. I feel that by helping other especially my students, i am repaying the
> loan of those friends who helped me. This group has changed my way of life.
> I am having more than 5000 photos of plants catched between 2000-2010 . Now
> i have a plateform to show them and get them identified (Slow net connection
> is a big hinderance in showing all of them to you). I was in panic after
> joining in a small college not having even basic facilities for Molecular
> Biology Work (Field of My PhD) but after joining this group i changed my
> line of work completely towards Taxonomy and Ethnobotany.So helping group
> members is more joyful for me. I am just a Teacher of Botany working in
> Haryana for popularization of Life Sciences, nothing else. So pls no so big
> words for me
>
> Thank you all
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Balkar Singh
> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
> Arya P G College, Panipat
> Haryana-132103
> 09416262964
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