Congrats Balkar ji! Tremendous work and tireless efforts. Thanks for everything.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Debashis <debashisc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to this forum and ever since my entry in this group,I have seen > the tremendous enthusiasm of Gurcharan Singh sir with his valuable remarks, > helping id, providing clues etc. which has been a major source of > encouragement for all in this group. Tabish ji, Umesh ji had also played > key roles in the process of identification as already remarked by Gurcharan > sir. > > However, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Hero of the VoF > episode Dr.Balkar Singh ji for his wonderful pictures of many many flowers > and plants. I would also like to congratulate Dr. Nidhan Singh for his > amazing ability in identifying plants which I have seen during the trip as > well and also for his beautiful uploads. Many lovely uploads were also seen > from Dinesh ji, Mani ji and Prashant ji along with the others. > > It has been a fantastic experience altogether in efi. > > Regards. > > Debashis Chowdhury > > > On Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:23:21 UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> Dear Friends >> The Valley of Flowers Week which we had to convert into a month long >> episode due to unmanageable load of uploads is a real feather in the >> history of our Group. The true heroes of this episode have been Dinesh ji, >> Prashant ji, Balkar ji, Nidhan ji, Rajesh ji, Mani ji, Dalia ji, ably >> supported by Pankaj ji, Debashish ji and Smita who between them shared >> nearly 1150 uploads of interesting plants from this rich valley, receiving >> more than 5000 responses, something which we never imagined at any stage. I >> would especially thank Tabish ji and Tiwari ji for maintaining the interest >> in this episode by plating a major role in resolving identity of many >> plants. It has been a real pleasure for me to be a part of this episode, >> seeing many Himalayan plants for the first time and seeing many others >> after a gap of more than 40 years. >> Though all our uploaders have been the Heroes of this episode, but >> the real Hero of this special episode has been Dr. Balkar Singh, who not >> only helped Rajesh ji in organising the VOF trip, but also coordinated the >> episode, and above all, the real criterion for this honour, uploaded the >> highest number of plants, nearly 305. >> Congratulations Dr. Balkar Singh ji.........and thank you very much >> for making it possible. >> >> >> -- >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> >> http://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/> >> >> -- > > > > --