Memory:2019
One more year moved-on in life with all its good and bad impressions! Personally, for me, I would not like to keep this year in memory. My biggest loss of the life is that I lost my father this year :(. As with everybody’s father, I grown up seeing him as my ‘hero of life’. Professionally, he was a lecturer of Biology, and his knowledge and teaching of the subject was par-exceelence. However, he had a similar deep interest in spirituality. He maintained his clean and strict image in the society. He was loved by many and has done several great work for the society. He has left his strong magnificent impression on people, equally on me. Whenever, I meet his acquaintances (friends or students), I always receive good words about him. Recently, an influential person told me that ‘whenever, I introduce you to the people, you get respect after telling that he is a ‘Professor in BHU’ and the same respect gets doubled whenever they know that you are his (my father’s) son! I learned from him a culture of honesty and high ethics, and that will be always reflected in my life! Papa I miss you :(
Professionally, our team has published 10 high class research papers this year, out of those two were among significant researches of India. We are grateful to all our collaborators, without them, it was impossible to achieve this quality. More importantly, from this year we extended our strong collaboration with Dr Pankaj Shrivastava (Forensic Scientist), to develop AIM (Ancestry informative markers) for forensic use.
This year three more PhD students joined our lab (Ms Debashruti Das, Ms Audditiya Bandopadhyay and Mr Rudra Kumar Pandey). Also, this year we finally have a place to sit i.e. 10x15 feet lab-cum-sitting place in #BHU. At the end of the year, we had a fruitful expedition to Bangladesh which is going to bring some good research papers in future. We visited Estonia for the most awaited defence of our very good friend Erwan.
I also presented in Delhi University on the question of association of R1a haplogroup and Aryan migration.
In year 2020, we will apply for couple of projects, recruit more PhD students and most importantly would visit various school and colleges to popularise Science.
Jai Hind!