Govind Gujar: entomologist's journey to understand the Society we live in

 At the outset, I wish you all a very happy Guru Pournima, which falls on 23 July this year. This auspicious occasion is celebrated to honour the birthday of Sage Veda Vyasa, who authored the Mahabharat and compiled Vedas, our ancient literature on Hindu civilization. So, in his honour, this day is celebrated in India to honour teacher community. This day is also known as Vyasa Pournima and Ashadha Pournima, latter after Hindu calender month of Ashada that falls during June-July. There is teacher (Guru) in each one of us. So, one day (during 1993-94), I happened to see my graduate student, KMS taking notes of my instructions. He was using a small note pad easy on shirt pocket. I found this quite appealing and adapted it. Often I will scribble something or that note of something that interested me. As spiral notepad was only of 20-30 pages, it will get filled within 1-2 months. As it is light weighted, it will not hang on my shirt pocket, maintaining creese of shirt that I wore. Someti

  It is a matter of pride that some of us are fortunate to have access to physicians, if not all. Our health is directly proportional to the number and quality of medical advice and infrastructure associated. I often recall some of my associations with doctors, and forget few others, who are exploitative. On this day, I will like to recall Dr. Jitendra Singh, son of our colleague Dr. S R Singh, Geneticist in Division of Genetics, IARI, New Delhi. Dr. Jitendra will always be ready to reach any one when called, while we were staying at Hostel Apartments in Pusa Institute. He was social, jovial and likeable man. I remember participating in his marriage and said that most of us, baraatis, were those from association with him and his father, as if we were more of his relatives per se. Unfortunately, Dr. Singh suffered from illness, as a result he was in hospital for many months. Our hearts bled while talking about him. At one point, doctors had given up hope and asked him to be shifted to h