Congratulations Dinesh ji for undertaking and giving impetus to this mammoth
episode on fruits and Vegetables, which we had to extend to the second week.
While requesting you for mederatorship, i was confident that you were best
equipped for this episode and i am happy and proud that you managed it so
well. The episode really picked up and even continues now.
The episode was fascinatng in that many of us (especially Madhuri ji,
nabha ji, Pankaj ji, Rashida ji and others) were able to share interesting
information which you usually can't find in books or the web. The threads on
Alstonia and Rumex were really interesting.
I agree with Pankaj ji that we can avoid such episodes and
concentrate on families/family group because (my view) plants are liable to
get repeated as were Cucurbits (already dealt) and solanaceae (our future
episode in April), but still the episode was exciting and really productive
one.
Congratulations and thanks to all for useful contributions.
--
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, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear Dinesh Sir,
>
> I think this was great. I started it with genera like Eulophia,
> Malaxis and Pleione and then Astavarga, later transformed into
> families by Dr. Gurcharan and then grouped back into Fruits and
> Vegetables. I think yours was the toughest job as you were handling
> multiple families. It was really nice and informative and at once I
> thought these informations (Fruits and Vegetables) could have been
> compiled into an article on Food Plants of India!!
>
> What I didnt like was my own activity, which has been minimized due my
> hectic schedule. But I added atleast one :P (Eriobotrya japonica)
> which no one else added except for Mr. Ninad.
>
> Over all it was fun and informative and I liked learning.
>
> Kudos to Dinesh Sir and all the rest who added more and more
> informations from India, to California to Germany.
>
> One request: Please dont keep such broad topics in future. I assume,
> family week/month would be better and less hectic.
>
> Regards
> Pankaj
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Many thanks for the frenzied posting of "fruits and vegetables" ... the
> > vigour of posting has increased many fold.
> > The benefit of focusing on a particular subject is clearly getting to be
> > seen -- every next day the concentrated efforts increase !!
> > The substance of our database is getting richer.
> >
> > My performance was fair at the start, but remained blank and miserable
> for
> > the rest of the period due to hectic activity at office front.
> > The weekends, luckily could be spent as holidays ... but, to vent out the
> > monotony of continuous work - retreated to Sahyadris.
> >
> > Many thanks to every one for stepping forward to share personal bits of
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dinesh
> >
>
>
>
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>
>
> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
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