Category: Journey to & through efi

Beginning was made after getting motivated from ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’ by Robin Sharma, to do something for society rather than for oneself. Thus on 18th of June 2007, Google group ‘Indiantreepix‘ was created. Being a member of similar groups on birds, butterflies etc. I contacted a lot of members to join the group. […]

I am a teacher of Botany in an agriculture university, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, often called as ‘harbinger of green revolution’ in India. However, being a ‘teacher’ and being a ‘good teacher’ are two different things and I found myself more closer to the first word and I suppose very few of […]

Dear friends, Some years back at the end of 2009, Garg ji requested me to join this group, then called as IndianTreePix, to which I was very hesitant to join. That is because I was just a few months old infant in the world of plants then. I was unaware of any web group; and […]

Since i was kid i was crazy lover of every green plant both flowering and non flowering  so obviously i have studied Botany in my MSc My first choice for career was to become Plant Taxonomist but destiny made me teacher,  for few years i went on only teaching Biology  Some one said love never […]

I have lived and worked in the Himalayan region of upper Dharamshala for almost two decades. When I first arrived here I lived in a wood cabin above a lake surrounded by cedars, oaks, pines and rhododendrons. The woods hosted a large number of birds and I woke up every morning to the song of […]

Efloraofindia: A Beautiful Voyage through Plant World   Dear Friends of Efloraofindia, It was one fine day of November 2010, I was in Shimla for a refresher course, when I was first introduced to this wonderful group. I joined the group, though hesitating, for so little I knew about Indian flora. I got a hearty […]

I was a school student, may be 7th standard, when I started going into forests and nearby streams to see plants and during this time I collected a plant which I could identify as an orchid, Vanda, only when I started my Bachelor Degree. I come from a small town of Ranchi, where my father […]

I am a third year BSc. Student studying at St.Josephs College in Bangalore. When I was in my first year, I started experimenting and trying out different things while in college to see what I would be interested in. One of my professors inspired me to start looking at algae. While searching for algae around […]